the orchid 35x37” as it looked after my rework. BELOW are before & after images
1:42 PM: the more i gazed at the orchid, which i last worked on november 24, the more the ground color annoyed me. it took over the composition and didn’t allow the figures, which were too heavily outlined, to play their part in the composition. in short, it wasn’t working.
so this morning i placed it on my painting table and began reworking it. the bright pink ground is now a muddy pink; the new section on the upper right is inspired by 18th c. japanese scrolls i’ve been studying, as are the white verticals, and a faint reminder of the floor of the acropolis museum has appeared on the lower left. the woman with the red shoulder bag is new as well.
BELOW: Ithe orchid before and after today’s modifications
DETAIL of the reworked the orchid
