5:23 PM: after bringing this painting to the house & hanging it, it immediately became clear that there's a problem with the composition. tricky to deal with, but that will be my focus tomorrow. it may require a radical intervention, which i love.
2:13 PM: following my morning musings (below), as noted below, i did more work on the painting. it's progressing slowly, but in a good direction; see what you think.
YESTERDAY TODAY
8:04 AM: in gazing around our house & surveying recent work, i've made several observations. on the lower right you see a plein air gouache painted on 9/27/17. the other 3; a detail of landscape series 4 on the upper left; we found a way on upper right and 1-26-17 collage on lower left, have all emerged from the discoveries i made while doing the plein air gouaches.
my feeling is that, in the landscape current series, i am edging closer to my "handle," by which i mean my unique way of translating what i see into paintings. can they match the immediacy of the plein air prototypes? likely not. but they can gain in richness and complexity resulting from the slow evolution of each piece over time.
