2 Versions Of A Same Artwork

Hi! I’m Veronica Huacuja, a painter and an online art teacher. I have some good tips for your art process. Hope you find them meaningful.

SOME PREVIOUS THOUGHTS. We can make up two or more versions of a same artwork. We can explore the same topic for as long as we need, and understanding we’re not repeating ourselves, we’re doing a thorough exploration that requires our efforts, insights and capacities as artists. And the key point is to observe the interesting results we get out of this method. I add one important and a practical good matter: each piece we create in this process will be a different artwork in our portfolio.

A SIDE COMMENT. Francis Bacon (1909-1992, Ireland), one of the great masters of paint of the 20th century, painted for years the same topic, which was “Crucifixion”. So, if he did so, we can afford to make less the same thing. Can’t we?

To exemplify this approach in our process, I present this piece and its data:

Title: Woman in Brown, Study 7
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Digital Art
Size: 10,000 x 6,000, 300 dpi
Year: 2021
Collection: Human Body

A TECHNICAL COMMENT. As a traditional and digital painter, I make up explorations in both mediums on the same topic. So, in this case, one point we’ve to have in mind is that it’s never the same thing to make up the work on our desktop, using a digital technique, than to approach a 100 by 80 cm surface (or so) with oil or acrylics. To tell the truth, the latter version requires more from us than the digital version because in order to accomplish the work, we need to master the technique and the graphic space. So, if you first solve with success (1) an artwork, in whatever technique you chose, whenever you approach the same topic in another technique, you will know how to solve the work, and create within it “… beauty, skill, inherent meaning, uniqueness, and fulfilled intent.” (2)

To exemplify and compare the results of both works, I'm adding the data of the piece I created in traditional techniques, and its link:

Title: Woman in Brown, Study 8 (3)
Artist: Veronica Huacuja
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 80 x 60 x 2.5 cm
Year: 2021
Collection: Human Body

MATERIAL (of the digital artwork).
- Photoshop. Almost any late version of this software.
- Digital tablet with a pressure-sensitive brush.

LET’S DEDUCE A SIGNIFICANT MEANING FROM THE ABOVE. As artists, making different versions of a same artwork, helps us to understand in a better way our work. On the other side, these diverse explorations might drive us to new and unexplored results within our work.

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1 Success in this context refers to the satisfaction we gain after finishing an artwork we consider with quality.

2 https://emptyeasel.com/2006/11/18/how-to-judge-art-five-qualities-you-can-critique/

3 https://i1.wp.com/veronica.mx/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/1-MODELO-HORIZONTAL.jpg?ssl=1