Il Torrente at the end of my painting day today
3:42 PM: I started my morning placing a seated figure into the composition, which was not at all right & now it’s gone. not even a photographic record.
the I put a very light pink & blue border around the edges, extending to canvas stapled to the sides of the stretcher bars. I think it works, but i’m not completely sure. then I worked into the main body of the composition, adding more patterning derived form the rocks at the creek, & the outlines of branches reflected in the creek.