sea kinesis III as it looked following last minute end of day changes.
5:58 PM: as i was about to leave the studio, at 4:30 pm, i took a look at the changes i made to sea kinesis III today. i didn’t feel good about the rectangular frame i painted surrounding it. so i wiped most of it out, as well as scraping over the entire painting. so here’s how it looks now.
sea kinesis III as it looked moments ago, at the end of my painting day today
2:43 PM: i wasn’t planning on doing more work today on sea kinesis III; i thought it was resolved when i left the studio yesterday. but when i came in this morning, it asked for more….begged for more! not one to deny yhe wishes if sea kinesis, i dove back in. yeah, yeah, pardon the pun.
i had noticed that some of the ancient roman mosaics i’d been looking at for inspiration contained an interesting, even compelling border around the entire composition. so i thought i’d play around with that visual concept. it’s definitely a very different look than the other two. the fish & octopii are no longer swimming in a seemingly boundless ocean; they are contained within a rectangular border. in this particular composition, moreso than the other two, it’s going to make a big difference once the white canvas surrounding the painting, which is where the stretching pliars will be applied to attach it to the stretcher bars, it will have a very differnet look. but i did crop that white out in photoshop, so what you see here is what visitors to the athens gallery will observe.
time to do some work on gathering the images of paintings in our final selection, putting them on a drive and giving them to mikela, who will make a PDF, which we can send to blurb so that the catalogue can be made. i’m thinking it may be better to create it here tan try going back & forth with the athens printer. but i’m still missing the text by the athens art critic who promised to write it…trying to touch base with him but he’s a very busy guy!