1/1/2022 oil/collage as it looked at noon
12:18 PM: when I entered the studio this morning & cast that all important first glance at 1/1/2022 oil/collage, it seemed too cluttered. so what else is new? that happens regularly. the area that bothered me most is in the central portion of the composition, so I collaged over it with one of the cut up drawings I made yesterday & posted pics of.
the other think that was bugging me were the hands. they were coming from my head not my gut. since I put them in yesterday, the paint was fresh enough that I could wipe it out with a little solvent.
the result, when you compare the two, is rather dramatic. it’s the very definition of unclutter! it breathes. it’s relieved to have lost the excess baggage. so the viewer’s eye is now free to roam the surface and enjoy all the cool details, such as the one you see on the right.
BELOW are the comparative views, with yesterday’s version on the left.
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1:55 PM: mikela walked over this morning & gave me some valuable feedback on a few recent paintings, one of which was 12/30/21 oil/collage, which I thought I had resolved last time I worked on it, 12/31/21.
look at the comparative pics BELOW, & you’ll see that, in the previous version on the left, there a collaged element with 3 red triangles. and now, if you look at the modified version on the right, they’re gone. take a deep breath, because that what this painting is doing now that it has cast off those red triangles! the whole composition can breathe, and the most beautiful passages, such as the one in the detail you see on the right, are so much more available to the viewer than before.
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