Creating the perception of motion

[Thomasin Dewhurst]

Here are a couple of examples of movement in painting.

1. Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase"
2. A detail from a Degas painting.

[Steven Sweeney]

I took a workshop in Australia from a painter named Robert Hagan, and I immediately thought of him as I read the description of your painting. For whatever reason, he loved to paint women standing in various bodies of water.

Here's an Amazon link to his book, "Romantic Oil Painting Made Easy"--

http://www.amazon.com/Romantic-Oil-P.../dp/1929834292

Click on the image of the cover to blow it up full-screen. Maybe there's something in that set-up that will suggest a course of proceeding.

[SB Wang]

Kinstler's portrait of Mrs. Dupon is praised for treatment of motion in a book.

[Steven Sweeney]

Yet another representation of movement over time might be made through pentimenti

[Richard Monro]

[QUOTE=Steven Sweeney]Might be tough to pull off, though it

[Carolyn Bannister]

Have a look at Nicholas Uribes site, he has done a few especially in the 2006 gallery. I particularly like this one http://www.uribearts.com/p7hg_img_1/fullsize/37.jpg

I think the ghost image idea would work really well.

[Michele Rushworth]

There's a painting of an orchestra conductor with his baton hand in motion that may have been painted by Kinstler or Michael Shane Neal that works well. Also one of the paintings in the current traveling show by Cecilia Beaux depicts a small child being led by the hand. There is a real feeling of motion around her skirts at the floor level.

A subtle combination of blurring, painted strokes that follow the direction of the movement and duplicate "after images" seem to do the trick