11/30/2021 creek oil/collage as it looked following the changes I made this afternoon
2:56 PM: the tokyo olympics skateboarder has reappeared! this guy just doesn’t want to go away! in the very first stage of this painting the dominant image was this very same skateboarder. unfortunately, i didn’t shoot a photo, but trust me, he was there, larger than life.
my intention all along has been to somehow integrate the tokyo olympics celebration figures with my creek-scapes. if you look carefully, you’ll see that this painting has elements of 3 of those figures, and this skateboarder is the most complete. to his left is the leg of a woman doing a handstand, and to his right, another acrobatic figure with blue trousers doing a handstand. by the way, what looks to be a celebratory banner at the top in red, is actually a cut out piece of a sign I made for the fedex driver containing my signature, to leave the package with my repaired ball watch just outside the studio if I didn’t answer.
i’m pooped, so i’m stopping for the day and will go back to the house as soon as I clean my brushes. mikela will get back from school around 5 & we’ll have our dinner. more tomorrow morning.
11/30/2021 creek oil/collage as it looked following the changes I made this morning
11:43 AM: I knew end of day yesterday that this painting was way way overloaded. so first thing I did was to take it off the wall and lay it on a table. I began going over areas I felt were too busy, then scraped into that, then drew into that with oil sticks, referring to some of my creek photos. now it’s back on the wall. it’s much easier to gaze at, but it’s not there yet.
not certain whether i’m going to do any more to it today; I may just let it breathe for 24 hours, and start something new.
BELOW: yesterday’s version is on the left
