The document discusses working in an art series, which involves creating multiple related artworks to explore ideas, moods, techniques, or answer artistic questions. Key points: - A series allows artists to experiment and see where new ideas lead them. Not every piece has to work. - Artists can use series to investigate questions like how to paint certain subjects, what different backgrounds or styles look like, or the effect of color on mood. - A series consists of 3+ related artworks and can depict versions of the same subject or different but related subjects. It is a long-term project where the artist works on multiple pieces simultaneously.

1. Sandy Carson, Series inspired by Andrew Wyeth
Painting in "Series“
Creating a Voice
and Discovering
Your Heart
Glenn Hirsch,
Instructor

2. Working in “series”
• explore moods & ideas (take advantage of the mood you’re in that day)
• experiment (not everything has to work)
• see where it leads you, allow for impulse and new ideas
• new toys (art supplies) can help get you in the mood
• artists you admire inspire
• exhibit a body of work (an art show, an album of songs or a literary play)

3. Working in “series”
a series is 3+ paintings
a series can be
• experiments to answer a question – how to paint a face or a flower? what kind of background?
which color and moods? Abstract or real? Which style(s)?
• versions of the same thing or different things (which are related in some way)
• a master study with multiple responses
• a game – it can be planned and it can also evolve
a series must be
• a project in which the artist works on multiple pieces at the same time
• some are perfect
• some are disasters which liberate you to experiment
• some are in between so you can fix them
a series can take a month or a lifetime

4. “play”
from
Sanskrit - krīdati - movement
Old English plegian – to exercise
Middle Dutch pleien – leap for joy
• An activity for enjoyment or fantasy (no practical
purpose)
• A performance in music or theater with spiritual
meaning (the highest practical purpose)
1. Strategy
2. Practice
3. Chance
4. Intuition
5. Improvisation

5. a series can be experiments
to answer a question
e.g., what kind of background?

6. How do
you paint
water?

7. How do you paint drapery?

8. how to paint rubber and rusted metal?

9. How to paint the face?

10. What is the difference between ‘real’ and ‘abstract?’Robert Marosi

11. How does color affect
mood?

12. John Reamer Portrait of my Parents
A series can be versions of the same thing

13. A series can be versions of the same thing

14. a series can be versions of different things which are related in some way

15. a series can start with a master
and then continue with a series of
responses to the
original work
(study of Georgia O’Keefe)

16. Working in series
makes an artist
independent.
What does this
series investigate?

17. Working in series
makes an artist
independent.
What does this
series investigate?

18. work on multiple pieces at the same time
Some are perfect
Some are disasters which liberate you to experiment
Some are in between so you can fix them

21. Ellen Cox

23. Deepa Goyal

24. Maggie Engebretson

25. series projects by advanced
students who have been
practicing their art for years

26. Beichen Li