canvas 15 as it looked at the end of my painting day today
3:33 PM: after making the modifications to canvas 14, which I posted earlier today, I started work on canvas 15. so far, it’s pretty simple and as yet has no collaged elements. there’s a dancing tokyo olympics figure with a patterned costume, in a landscape. i’d like to keep it simple….so what else is new?
i’m using the amazon try before you buy feature to find the right sneakers to wear while standing all day on my cement studio floor. the latest ones arrived today, and are sketchers brand. not too bad looking, but it’s all about the footbed and the overall fit & feel over many hours. been wearing these since about 1pm, and so far so good.
12:47 PM: turns out, as usual, after all those predictions from future radar, we only ended up with an inch of new snow. more up on the peaks, but not nearly enough to lift us out of severe drought.
when I came back in to the studio this morning, I saw a few areas in canvas 14 that needed work, so I made the modifications, which you can see in the comparative views BELOW.
as you will observe, the dancer’s legs, which were hanging mid-air, now have sneakers, and his face now has features. the shadow of his leg has appeared in light violet, and a decorative element from the original photo of the olympics celebration event breaks up the checkerboard blue in the background. a hint of blue sleeve peeks out from the back of his blue & white garment, echoing the other blues in the composition.
