10/2/2021 painting/collage at 4pm
4:07 PM: I was never a big fan of the juggler. so I ditched him! I struggled with that figure all day yesterday & today until finally at about 3pm, I said fuck this! you might say, yeah, but you were getting somewhere integrating him into the composition. but I just wasn’t loving that figure, so working on him seemed like a chore. know what I mean?
in his place, two familiar dancing figures, who have appeared in other paintings in this series. I love their red hats, her checkered shorts, their dancing moves….it’s still in process, so we’ll see what happens in the morning. we have an international Zoom with our German friends at noon, so i’ll have to work around that. see ya then!
10/2/2021 painting/collage as it looked moments ago
2:28 PM: I may be overworking the figure of the juggler. I need to get some new canvases stretched so that I can have a couple of things to switch back & forth on and not get too attached to one or the other.
that said, I do feel that the changes I made have improved the composition as a whole. the biggest shift was in the area surrounding the head and upper body of the juggler. the black magazine cutout collaged around his head allows that form to gain equal importance as the figure of the fallen tennis player on the left, allowing the central figure of the paddler to be more of a balance point.
in the comparative images BELOW, the eye gets a little lost and confused when looking at the right side of the composition. i’ve been going back & forth about that rose area to the left of the juggler’s head, but right this moment I do feel that the dark grey shape I replaced it with is a better solution.
