3:41 PM, this is the very first stage of jazz 11. oil on linen, 35x37”/94x89cm.
3:36 PM: after completing revisions on jazz 10, i started work on…guess what? jazz 11!!
as with the previous jazz 10, it’s starting out with image of a bird; one of the 214 i currently have in my birds album on my iphone. this one’s a pretty little guy/girl, but that doesn’t mean he/she won’t eventually be painted over.
detail of stage 1, jazz 11
jazz 7, 37x35”/94x89 cm. oil and collage on linen, as it looked following further revisions made earlier today.
1:15 PM: i was not happy with how this painting looked yesterday at the end of my painting day. today i added lots of that grey you can find in many of the other jazz series paintings. it might seem to you that they’re repetative, but actually they are in my world simply variations on a theme, much as you find in music. seen all together, which i envision happening in the not too distant future, the viewer will ideally have an experience not unlike Rachmaninoff: Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op.22 (Chochieva)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiDtLscGnn8
the theme, in this case, is the walking figure seen from above, with the blue plaid shirt. he is, actually, inspired by a shot from above i captured on our tv, of the main character in the tv serial, the good doctor.
BELOW: the history of jazz 7
