Twelve Pitchers (detail)

I'm noticing that each pitcher (this is the fifth) has a personality of it's own--and this one is decidedly feminine.

Twelve Pitchers (detail)

Here's another panel in the piece I'm working on between landscape painting trips. I started with a working sketch for the composition:

Twelve Pitchers (detail)

Each of the panels in "Twelve Pitchers" has a different value relationship between object and ground (pitcher and table), and every tabletop is a different color or pattern. They'll fit together at the end to make a new value and color composition that can't help being more than the sum of its parts.

Twelve Pitchers (detail)

Perceptive readers will remember that this painting I'm working on was called "16 Pitchers" in my last posting, and while I like that title more, I'm leaning (this morning, anyway) towards a square composition that needs a dozen rectangles.

16 Pitchers (detail)

I'm working on a new multi-panel piece, one of a number I have in mind that explores the idea of "theme and variation".