3:30 PM: i had hung an early jazz series painting in the entryway of our house, thinking it was complete. think again, philip! it’s smaller than the other 4 jazz series paintings, measuring 16x29”/41x73 cm. it had a similar composition, and as i progressed with the evolving jazz series, it started feeling too busy when i looked at it.
so this morning i brought it back to the studio. after working on jazz 3 & 4, i lay it on my painitng table and began working into it, followed by some work i did on the east painting wall. it’s still too crowded, but moving in a good direction.
1 PM: my all important frist glance at my current jazz series paintings led me to make changes to a few of the figures in jazz 3 & 4.
lets start with jazz 4, which i was working on yesterday. i found the figure of the half naked woman in the red top annoying, first of all because she was provacative and, connected to that, tended to dominate the composition and draw the eye away from the music and movement of the whole. so i flipper the canvas 90° & painted over her. in her place is a second walking figure with the blue plaid shirt, who appears in all four paintings in the series thus far. the producers of the good doctor tv series might find this amusing, since he’s the lead character in the show, freddy highmore, who plays dr. shaun murphy. BELOW: yesterdays version on the left. do you agree with my assesment?
in jazz 3, the figure of the little boy in the lower left portion of the composition seemed unecessary to the composition, as did the figure of the girl in red with the shoulder bag, so out they went! see the difference BELOW:
