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portrait orientation requires larger degree of back and forth - small and large

Mound 2 Mountain-digital painting / art prints -Dan Beck 2006

I painted this piece yesterday, I am pretty pleased with it. There is a crazy amount of texture in it - which you can only see when viewed large. But I think it has a nice feeling and flow even viewed small.

Creating a piece that is portrait orientation is a lot harder for me. Monitors are wider than taller and to see the entire piece, I have to work at about 45% of the actual size,

This means there is a lot of back and forth between working with a small canvas and working on a small section closer to full size.

But I think that is actually one of the reasons I chose to work in this orientation yesterday - I wanted that kind of challenge - and I wanted a few more pieces with that upright twist.

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See Also

• Valley Work
  personal favorite also with portrait orientation - details included in enlargement
• Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005
  artist’s work does similar thing - must stand back to see - but must look closely to see
• Review/Art; In Portraits on a Grand Scale, Chuck Close Moves On - New York Times
  think I have referenced this article before - but it says similar things about his work - how it must be seen from back and from close - the separate views being put together to make sense