acropolis museum, 80x20” oil on linen, as it looked yesterday (left) and following the work i did today
2:07 PM: the bright colors i introduced yesterday, while compelling, didn’t work for me when i entered my studio this morning and gazed at the painting critically. especially that bright green stripe on the left.
so now, it’s much more subdued, and the overall greyness allows the areas of color to sing. the subtle transitions allow the eye to roam slowly over this very tall, narrow composition, and to slowly realize that what we’re looking down at is probably a 2-300 foot expanse of one of the galleries in the acropolis museum, with the sunlight raking across the floor and the visitors taking in the experience, which many of them, who are foreign tourists may never have again.
DETAIL of the upper 1/4 of the painting