4:14 PM: after making the changes to w-c 2 earlier today, i cut some new pieces of primed portrait linen and started work on tokyo olympics 8. as the title suggests, i continue to be inspired by the celebrations following the 2020 tokyo olympics. this is day 1, and a lot more will likely happen tomorrow, when i can get an earlier start.
11:57 AM: ever since i last worked on w-cup 2, which was about 10 days ago, on december 30, both ,mikela and i have been looking at the white space above the main figures, increasingly feeling that something needed to happen up there.
so today i addressed that issue, adding the figure of a jumping skateboarder wearing a yellow top. as usual, i’ll have to sit with it for a while to make sure it works. it’s always tricky to go back in to any painting, but especially one with such a delicate balance fro forms & colors.
BELOW: w-cup 2 on december 30 and as it looked following todays modification
tokyo olympics 8, 37 1/4x 18 3/4” as it looked at the end of my painting day
