2:40 PM: well, another figure did enter the composition, but it wasn’t the red head I referred to in my earlier post. instead it’s the image of Emma raducanu, the 20 year old tennis player who defeated leila fernandez in the ny open seimi finals yesterday and will go on to play in the finals. here she has fallen to the ground in amazement, just after her winning volley. I shot a bunch of photos from the tv screen, when mikela paused the playback at moments she knew might be of interest to me.
I find what has happened to the composition as a result of this new development to be very exciting. with some palette knife scraping, swirls of paint render the image dynamic, taut, even explosive. I may be winding down for today, so i’ll clean the many brushes i’ve used & prepare to return to the house, where l’ll get my way overdue haircut from mikela, who does a better job than any professional barber, in less time and at no charge!
then i’ll prepare for our trip to pueblo. mikela will be introducing actionlab360 to the school kids there while I do some errands, have a nice brunch and, undoubtedly, make some drawings at whatever restaurant I choose.
DETAIL of the tennis player I added just now
9/10/2021 painting/collage , 26x62” as it looked moments ago, following a round of work/play earlier today
12:51 PM: I got a late start; we walked up the trail, where I made the little drawing you see below.
then I launched back in to 9/10/2021 painting/collage. the skiff with it’s paddler viewed from above, which have appeared in previous paintings in this series, has re-emerged. he is the calm in a sea of activity, which gives him a new perspective. the bit of blue I introduced around his head is enough of a clue to read as water. there’s a second paddler in the photo I shot from a bridge in alamosa. the red headed guy.
let’s see if in the next few hours he makes an appearance as well! I kind of like how the red shape to his left looks a bit like a wacked out dragon. compositionally, I like how he breaks up the black on top, which was a little too much, and dominated the composition.
you may recall me sharing my excitement at the gift mikela got me back in January. it’s a gorgeous ball train master chronometer. since then it hasn’t left my wrist. but there’s one thing that was bugging me: the hour indicator of the chronometer won’t re-set to zero. rather, it goes to the 1, which you can see in this photo. the hour indicator for the chronometer is the lower dial, at 6 o’clock.
so i’m biting the bullet and sending it in for repair to a highly respected watch repair place in Illinois. I hate being without it, but the perfectionist in me needs to have it work perfectly. so i’ll probably be without it for 2-3 weeks, maybe a month.