canvas 19 as it looked at the end of my painting day today
2 pm: I did quite a bit more work on canvas 19, and that’s about all i’m going to do today.
eliminating the blue checkerboard patterning on the top helped the entire composition a lot, I would say. I also added a few more drums as well as simplifying the area surrounding the drummer’s head.
12:16 PM: after scraping over the painting yesterday afternoon, I came in to my studio this morning licking my lips. it’s tempting to go online and find out the latest developments in Ukraine, but mikela is on top of it, and if anything important breaks, she’ll call.
so I introduced an entirely new figure into the composition: a drummer photographed from above. I think he’s part of the tokyo olympics celebration, but if he’s not, I just made him. I love the round forms of the drums seen from above, and how they contrast with the tokyo olympics celebration figures pushing those big colored rectangular boxes around!
so it’s shaping up, and I think I have about another 2 hours in me. i’m going to continue painting and will post again when i’m done for the day. the mauve shadows on the bottom help to create continuity & coherence to the lower portion of the painting. it’s helpful to the reproduction you see, if you compare it with the one of the earlier stage, below, that I remembered to turn on the raw setting on my phone, which allows the colors to be a lot truer. i’ve begun using my i-phone 13 more than my nikon because it actually give me better results!
canvas 19 as it looked moments ago