this afternoon i started making tweaks to paintings for my aspen show. this one is in my ano kato series, titled school hallway 1. i felt it needed to pop a little more, so i added some lights in some areas. BELOW are the before (left) & after shots.
most noticeable is the blue book to the right of the seated girl on top. a few of the more subtle tweaks are: the face of the girl on top, as well as the greens of her jacket; the whites in the sneakers of the figure to the left, the white headband on the girl below as well as the whites of her shoes….
dwell as it looked moments ago following continued work this morning
1 PM: this morning i continued my modifications to dwell, 17x80”
this may be the most narrow composition i’ve created. the trick is to have it read as one integrated composition. if you look at the right and left crops BELOW, each half of this composition works by itself. i’m not yest certain about the composition as a whole though. it’s certainly better than it was…