Ellas, 64x30” oil on portrait linen at 2pm
2:04 PM: i worked mostly on the lower portion of the composition over the past few hours, although i did add arms to the female figure at the top. slowly is holy, especially in a delicately balanced compostion such as this. i need to do a bit more to the area just beneath the upper figure to unite it with the rest of the composition. but, as much as ossible, i’d like to maintain the simplicity and spareness, allowing the viewer space to invent the rest.
11:55 AM: got bored doing roughly the same composition as the two earlier versions of this composition, so i switched it up and am drawing form a number of different photos i shot from above over the last few years.
Ellas, 64x30” oil on portrait linen, at noon today