11:14 AM: I got some very helpful feedback yesterday from a dear poet friend in nyc who has one of the best set of eyes for evaluating paintings of anyone I know. it had to do with the boot in this painting. here’s a quote: “your shoe looks too much like a face, a kind of scary face to me….”
of course, she was absolutely right. so this morning I got right to work re-doing that part of the painting. the hiking boot is mine, and is part of a photo I shot on our trail walk 2 days ago.
my boot just doesn’t work as it appears in this photo. the patterns around the laces just don’t work in this context. so this morning, I took one of mikela’s lowa all black boots & used it to re-work the one in the painting, after collaging a piece of thin white paper over it. I made it a tad larger as well. my friend was so right about how the one I painted yesterday resembles a ghoulish face!
BELOW: yesterdays version of the left and on the right, what I did just now.
