6:01 PM: late this afternoon, on our way to take our afternoon walk, mikela rightly pointed out that the gren rectangle on the lower left was screwing up he composition. so i rubbed it out as much as possible, and i’ll do a better job in the morning.
12:54 PM: this morning i continued work on the new acropolis museum V. i had the intention of leaving more white space than in the previous one. what’s happening is that over a period of months, the figures i was most interested in using in these paintings became a group of a dozen or more. some were included in the photos i had shot back in march at the acropolis museum; others were from earlies photos, shot here in colorado. and still others, like the walking guy with the plaid shirt, where shot from our tv screen.
one thing that’s different here so far is that there are no layers, no white-overs, no scraping, as was the case with acropolis museum III. so will it remain this way? i’ve learned from decades of experience to stop working when i have no more juice, so that’s it for today. less is more…