2:58 PM: we’re going to attempt to take our trail walk in about 1/2 hour. hopefully we won’t have to turn back due to heavy hail, as we did yesterday!
i did a bit more work on the new 5/9/21 creek oil. i was hesitant to do anything because it was such a great start, but i knew it needed more work. so i’m progressing slowly, making sure i’m in the groove before doing anything, and i’ll continue tomorrow morning.
5/9/21 creek oil, 26x78” as it looked at the end of my painting day today
12:35 PM: i got the new canvas stretched over a layer of masonite to allow for collaging later on. this is the first stage. it’s so much more simple than the other three, it almost makes me want to make 3 more that are this simple. that could make it easier for them to be hung together as a suite.
let’s see if this one remains as simple as it is at the moment. right now i’m dreaming of having a dozen or so stretched canvases this same size: 26x78”. that would make it easier to continue in this simple, playful mode.
10:38 am: as i prepared to stretch a new canvas for the 4th in this series, i looked critically at 4/29/21creek oil and saw where i needed to make some changes, which i did. most of my changes were in the center and right portions of the composition. the large, unbroken area of white collaged paper covering the horizontal tree trunk was broken up; the slender vertical tree trunk just to the right of that now crosses over the horizontal trunk, and two strategic rock forms have appeared in what was a blank white space immediately above the center of that horizontal tree trunk. all together, these modifications make the composition easier and more pleasurable for the eye to navigate BELOW on top: after the changes; and below, before.