Too Complicated

I have decided to use only 12x16-sized canvases so that my art display is uniform. When I was younger, I had a recurring nightmare involving nothing but alphabet letters that grew and shrank randomly. I remember waking up in night sweats. Suffice to say, we should keep things the same size whenever possible.

I broke the rule and bought a bunch of small panels for fun. I initially intending to paint a Newton's Cradle on a small panel. Ill-advisedly, I expanded it to a full-sized painting.

Newton's Cradle doesn't work in a large space because good composition demands the swinging dots in the middle to be much larger than they are here. However, if I had made the balls larger, it would throw off realistic scaling compared to the rest of the scene.

Ultimately, the painting could have come together more coherently, however I still really like the individual components: the scene, the colors and the perspective. It didn't endure a lot of rework, so it's quite clean!


I present: Seven Dwarfs Dots on a Newton's Cradle in a Gymnastics Competition with Biased Judges.
Why settle for one idea when you can combine all of them.
From left to right:
- Grumpy (more
like Rage-y)
- Astonished
(replacing Dopey)
- Sneezy
- Anxious (replacing Bashful)
- Sleepy
- Doc
- Happy

Key skills challenged: Perspective