dwell 17x80” oil on linen as it looked at the end of my painting day
dwell 17x80” oil on linen, as it looked on july 25 after introducing the blue on upper left
2:25 pm: ever since i last worked on it, i’ve been gazing at dwell, 17x80.” the last time i did something to it was the day i impulsively lay it on my painting table and introduced the blue to the upper left quadrant.
today, after taking care of some adjustments to the stretcher bars on tokyo drummer, i moved aside everything on my east painting wall & hung dwell. it needed to pop more, but i hadn’t been sure where to begin. so i started with the figure on the upper right & the adjacent table & chairs. then i loved on to the figure on the lower left, who, seen from above, is slicing a loaf of bread. from there i picked up steam & made tweaks to the bowls of fruit on the long whiote table and to the daisies on the left. i’ll determine tomorrow morning whether more needs to be done. but right now, as i look at it from a distance of about 18 feet, it definitely pops more. i sure am glad i was bold enought to add that blue on the upper left; i had to be in an all or nothing mood, which i was that day.