tokyo olympics 16 at 11am this morning
tokyo olympics 16 as it looked at the end of my painting day
2:14 PM: following the slight modifications to tokyo olympics 16 that i made earlier today, when it was still a horizontal composition, i flipped it 90° and began working on it as a vertical composition. it seemed as if the singer who was on the left deserved to be upright!
i took out much of the creek related marks, such as the flowing blue-green water and instead added a second singer with mike on the middle left portion of the composition. i also painted over most of the blacks, which were detracting from what has become a rather delicate composition. the reds & yellows carry the day now, with the only blue being the patterning on the shirt of the singer at the top, with a small blue accent of color remaining at the bottom right.
to my eyes, this painting is now refreshingly spare, allowing the viewer space to wander about at will without getting stuck on any unnecessary details or marks. right now, looking at the rest of the paintings in this series on my east wall, this has become one of my favorites. everything ging on just to the right of the new second singer was taken out not by collaging, but with a thick layer of white oil paint, applied with one of my palette knives.
11:44 AM: this morning so far, i’ve introduced a couple of collaged elements to break up the blacks on the upper left, which were too dominant.