1:40 PM: today i did more work on the two most recent paintings in my tokyo olympics series of paintings.
i started with the most recent: tokyo olympics 13, which i felt needed something more in the lower portion of the composition, but not too much. so i drew in some creek rocks and branches, which i think work but may need to be bolder than the sketchy pencil lines i drew in. i think they also add a note of mystery, placed as they are beneath the skateboarder & the acrobat doing a handstand. as is true with the others in this series, it’s up to the viewer to fill in the blanks.
as for tokyo olympics 12, i had gone over the entire painting 2 days ago with a thin coat of light yellow and wsa waiting for it to dry sufficiantly for me to go back in without my brush picking up too much of that yellow.
it’s a totally different composition now, although, as i intended, the previous version, which i painted over, does peek through as a ghost image, adding richness and mystery.
so now, the composiiton has three singers, who played a key role in the post-olympic games celebration.
