jazz 20, 35x37” as it looked moments ago, at the end o fmy painting day
2:06 PM: enough time has passed since i last worked on jazz 20 that i no longer feared messing with it. i knew in my gut that it could improve as a composition, so today i jumped in with both feet.
the whitish area on the right is still unresolved. i like that i broke up the pink ground and i especially love what happened around the head and shoulders of the lower paddler. you may not have realized that, on the upper right is a tennis player throwing the ball up to serve. i didn’t do anything to that figure, which i feel serves as a counterbalance to the more boldly painted paddlers on the left. i photographed those guys looking down from a bridge in alamosa some years back, and they’ve found their way into quite a few paintings since then.
as a composition, from where i’m sitting about 25 feet away, it’s far more interesting than it was. we’ll see what happens tomorrow!
BELOW: yesterday’s version is on the left
