2:57 PM: i made a few subtle but all important finishing touches to windows 2 this morning. if you compare the two, BELOW, you can find them. the most significant was to the hand of the technician, smack dab in the upper center of the composition. he’s very precise with his hand movements when he’s working, and i think i captured that. all 4 figures, including the one hidden behind that hand i worked on, received some additional strokes. so for example, if you compare the shoes of the kneeling figure on the right before & after my tweaks, you’ll notice that, in yesterdays version, he had only one shoe, whereas now he has two.
it was, i will admit, tempting at times to “fill in the blanks,” and introduce colors to the armchair on the right, the stairs in the lower central portion of the composition, and so on. but that’s not what this painting wanted.
DETAIL of the hand i worked on this morning
