11/26/2021 creek oil/collage at the end of my painting day today, following significant modifications
1:51 PM: it got way too busy yesterday. so my goal today was to simplify by removing lots of scumbled areas of color I added at the end of the day yesterday. it’s a painstaking process of, basically, using a solvent on a rag to rub out unwanted areas. since they were added yesterday, they were still fresh enough to rub out.
if you take a look at the upper section of the painting, for example, and make it full page on your computer, you’ll see just how much I took out. but the same holds true for the lower portions of the composition. I may do a tiny bit more with the figure tomorrow morning when i’m fresh.
BELOW: yesterday’s version is on the left
