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2:17 PM: first thing i did this morning was to stretch another 78x26” canvas, which will become the sixth in this series. i started the drawing, while casting critical glances at sound of a flute over the river, which i’ve been working on and revising over the past few days. at a certain point, as often happens, what i needed to do clicked in.
essentially, what i did breaks up the activity in the central portion of the composition with curvilinear forms, as taiga often did and as i have done throughout my career.
so now, rather than examining and identifying the numerous leaf & branch marks in the central portion of the composition, the viewers eye immediately discerns snake-like patterns. this allows you to breathe into these new rivers of tan, stopping along the way to admire the figure in red, for example, or the mountain peak at the very top of the composition. i think i did good work today.
BELOW: yesterdays version is on the left; click on it, then toggle back & forth to see what i’m talking about.
