2:35 PM: seems my nursery school teacher in brooklyn was right when she stated in her evaluation “Philip seems especially interested in watching construction workers.”
and if she only knew how greatly that interest would expand once i combined it with my passion for views from above!
so today i took windows 2 to the next stage. in the morning, i worked on the larger figure of the installer on the left side of the composition. this afternoon, a second figure was introduced; the same guy i introduced into the windows 1 composition, who, in this painting, is the figure in blue on the upper left.
compositionally, things have gotten more interesting now, with the architectural elements on the left playing against the ones on the right. i could actually leave the painting as is, which i might do. i always prefer to allow the space to breathe rather than filling it with unnecesary elements. as i have often said, this is, first and foremost, a painting, period. and not a painting of window installers. it’s a balance of painterly marks and colors defining a space pregnant with movement and suggested destinations.
windows 2 as it looked at the end of my painting day today