jazz 14 35x37”, as it looked following the white-over this morning, with ghost images of the previous versio
3:51 PM: having completed my re-work of jazz 15 yesterday and upon reviewing more paintings in my jazz series, i decided that jazz 14 wasn’t up to my present standards, so today i whited over most of it and tomorrow, when it’s reasonably dry, i’ll work into it.
increasingly, i love painting over the ghost images of a previous painting. it provides a unique opportunity and helps create what i’m calling magic. my ever expanding menagerie of characters, mostly viewed from above, are frozen in a moment of movement towards or away from one another, along with with traces of creek-scape; rocks, branches and flowing water.
what results is unpredictable, and allows the viewer to make up his or her own story about what’s going on, while delighting in the painterly brushwork, which has, clearly, evolved over many decades.
BELOW: jazz 14 before and afer today’s white-over.
5:50 PM: in going through the paintings leading up to this point, i found that this one: atsuita, painted on september 9th, could be seen as a transitional moment directly leading to the work i’ve been doing ove rthe past few weeks.