3:52 PM: I started out the day making some important changes to shinkei. as you can see from the images BELOW, todays version, on the right, now has white highlights on the rocks below, some small but significant white marks in the center of the composition suggesting figures, more pink in the mountains above and a red seal in the lower right. as a result, there is more movement in the composition, as well as more mystery.
il torrente has gone through many phases, the most recent of which, masked by a tan over-painting, adds immeasurably to this latest over-painting. the imagery, in this current incarnation, derives from an anonymous 7th century cave painting in china. while going deeper with my research on the great 11th century Chinese painter li gonglin, I came across a treasure trove of images such as the ones below, from manuscripts in a cave in china created between the 5th-11th centuries.
i’ll continue work on il torrente tomorrow morning.
