2:50 PM: i did more work on these 2 paintings today. they have both been influenced by taiga, the 18th c. japanese landscape painter & calligrapher i so admire. the tall skinny format is proving to be more challenging than anticipated, especially taking into consideration how much i love that format & have used it in previous work. so as a result, spring creek has not yet sounded it’s note, although, as mikela remarked earlier, it does have some beautiful passages, especially on the lower 1/4 of the painting. but as yet, it doesn’t hang together as a composition. i may start work on the other two and that may lead to solutions that i can use in spring creek...
BELOW: left: purple rock II right: spring creek
