il torrente post scraping
1:09 PM: this morning il torrente popped just a little too much, so i scraped over it 3-4 times with a palette knif & a ocnstruction tool with little teeth. i think that did it.
first of all, it subtly took some of the yellows, reds & blues and distributed them over and into the white. as well, it lowered the temperature and intensity of those colors so that the eye is now able to read the entire composition more smoothly. the blacks are a bit more towards grey. the effect is more akin to glancing at the frozen creek when we walk up to the stupa; it sings but in a mellow tone.
BELOW: yesterdays version on the left, and todays on the right. click back & forth 3-4 times to begin discerning the differences in various quadrents of the painting. notice, for example, the difference in the balcks of the rock on the lower right.
