8/11/25 collage 12x14” on strathmore bristol, as it looked moments ago, after adding the shadows beneath their feet
BELOW: before (left) and after today’s tweaks
1:43 PM: when i brought 8/11/2025 collage to the house yesterday, mikela and i gazed at it and her always sharp eye focused in on the dark area between the heads of the couple and found it too dark, distracting from the flow of the composition. so i worked on correcting that this morning, as well as adding a highlight to the red garment of the female figure. as well, collaging a blue strip of color on the right, balancing out the upper & lower blue strips. blue gouache with tiny white dots was added between the couple, which in tlhe original photo i was inspired by, was a blue glass floor. lastly, beneath their feet a violet shadow has appeared which, if you could see the actual collage, plants the couple, who were kinda floating, on terra firma!