3:02 PM: following my new changes to tokyo olympics 10, i got started on tokyo olympics 11. it’s in a very early stage, but i love all the white space, and we’ll see how much of that remains when i continue working on it tomorrow morning!
2:58 PM: i made a few more changes to tokyo olympics 10, and started work on tokyo olympics 11.
12:06 PM: we have a wonderful wind on this cloudy day today, gusting to 30mph. it’s snowing on the peaks, but thus far we haven’t seen any down here. i say down here, but of course we’re at 8,000 ft. the peaks above us rise to 14,300 ft.
the changes i just made, which are extensive, came from my reaction to my first glance when i entered my studio this morning.
the composition seemed disconnected, and the patterning below, while it was interesting by itself, had little to do with the overalll composition.
my use of blacks in this re-work stems, to a large degree, from some reading i was doing over breakfast this morning. i was going through some of john elderfield’s excellent text in my 1992-93 museum of modern art matisse retrospective catalogue. in it, he speaks of matisse’s use of black in a way that made me rethink my own use of that color.
the result is, i believe, a far more coherent and vibrant painting.
so now let’s see what i do on the next one, which has the exact same dimensions and is tacked to the wall adjacent to this one.
BELOW: THE PAINTING AS IT LOOKED YESTERDAY IS ON THE LEFT
