Here is a photo of the painting that I developed from ‘Maze’, and also went on to develop my more recent painting A Figment of Paint from.
I enlarged the image to give it more impact and therefore dramatic effect, also adding an additional component to the composition that had not been in the previous version; the broken-off staircase on the right of the picture. This is a feature that i had been planning on since the first picture, but did not have sufficient room to include it within the frame of a picture that size.
I had a clear idea in my head of what I wanted my staircase to look like; modern and simplistic, with triangular stairs and a spiral format. I managed to find some images of staircases that matched this description on the internet, and chose one to refer to for the staircase in my painting.
I then executed my idea, which was to paint the supports of the staircase lower down, but not higher up, so that near the top there would simply be stairs that appear to hover in mid-air, leading to nowhere.
I feel this worked successfully, and also think that this picture worked better on a larger scale.
