paddlers on bright yellow, day 5
1:43 PM: today is a short day. i waited for mikela to leave for school in monte vista & got to the studio around 11. i made some additions to the painting, to the left of the paddler on the left, adding the broken outline of the same paddler’s body, with body color only on his leg &, very lightly, on his back. but i like how it reads now. this is one of those things that could be a discovery one repeats elsewhere, but i firmly believe each painting; each composiiton, has it’s own logic and identity. had i not made a series of at least4-5 paintings with the paddlers last year, i couldn’t have gotten to this point with those same 2 paddlers. not to say the earlier versions were incomplete of undeveloped. they were exactly what they needed to be in the sea i was swimming in at the time.
BELOW: yesterday’s stage, on the LEFT, and today’s, RIGHT
detail showing the addition i made this morning
BELOW: an earlier version of the two paddlers, painted a little less than a year ago, on august 2, 2021
8/2/2021 creek oil. 26x62 in.