tokyo olympics 2 26x62” at the end of the day today
2:21 PM: I added another figure, which was drawn in but had no color yet. it’s a male figure in the lower right who is skating. his positioning anchors the whole composition, creating a syncopated rhythm which works with the theme of people dancing & having fun. i’m cooked, so i’ll clean my brushes and wait for mikela, who is driving back from alamosa as we speak and will stop by to look at the painting.
11:55 AM: mikela had to leave early for actionlab360 meetings in alamosa (50 miles south) so I arrived early in the studio and have been moving ahead with tokyo olympics 2. blue & light yellow bands of color now sweep across the 62” width of the canvas and a checkered pattern has appeared on the upper body of the central dancing figure. a suggestion of creek-scape has shown up in the upper region. the skateboarder with the yellow top leaps and others soon to appear dance, in a celebration ending the 2021 tokyo olympics. and i’m also celebrating: the arrival of my 4 five yard rolls of extra fine portrait linen. normally, this very fine textured linen is used for smaller scale works, mostly portraits. but I find it ideal for my style of painting; let’s call it painterly abstraction.