1:27 PM: i started my painting day by making an adjustment to jazz 6. the bit on the right wasn’t working, which mikela pointed out when she walked over yesterday afternoon to give me some feedback.
so i scraped it & painted over it with off white. then i introduced a new figure, which was inspired by the views from above of skoufa street in athens, shot from a balcony during my solo exhibition at skoufa gallery.
the figure i introduced was too well defined, and so didn’t work with the other figures. so i scraped & whited over it, and removed his legs, which also weren’t necessary to the composition. i think it works now, but i’ll sit with it for a day or two & see how i feel.
BELOW as it looked yesterday, on the left. i think the figure i introduced today, on the right, integrates way better into the composition as a whole.
jazz 6, 35x37”/94x89cm. oil on linen
on a kind of comical note, after introducing the figure on the right and before whiting over his legs, i blotted the image with a piece of paper towel, which helped push it back a little, but didn’t reallt solved the problem. i taped the paper towel, with it’s blotted image in reverse, next to the actual painted image, which i thought looked kinda cool.
the blotted paper towel image is taped on the lower right
once i was done with jazz 6, i moved on to the new jazz 7, which i started work on yesterday. the sexual japanese imagry was, as i predicted yesterday, painted over, but it’s remains have enlivened the new figures form above i introduced this morning. more changes are on the way tomorrow, but right now i’m going to clean up early in preparation for our trail walk at 3:30, assuming we don’t get a thunderstorm at 3pm, as predicted.
BELOW: jazz7 as it looked yesterday on the left, and after the work i did earlier today, on the right.
