3:04 PM: now that i’ve got some of the more pressing logistics addressed for my show next month, i feel the freedom to do more work on the sea kinesis series of 3 paintings, inspired by ancient roman mosaics.
so today i did more work on sea kinesis III.
i had put a multicolored border around it, which didn’t work at all. so i painted over it with while oils & waited for it to dry enouch tha i could paint over it, which i did today. now, this one pops more than the other two, since i used a mix of black, prussian blue and grey to fill in the areas that are pretty dark in the original mosaics. but, since they’re mosaics composed of tiny stones, when you look at them they’r enot a flat black; they have spects of off-white, which is the light reflecting of the small jagged edges of the stone pieces comprising the mosaic. i dipped the tip of an old watercolor brush in off white oil paint and scumbled over the black, creating that same effect of reflected whites.