jazz 11 with the changes i made just as i was about to walk out the door.
4:29 PM: i was about to walk out the door when….you guessed it, i was hit with a flash of lightening, metaphorically of course. you can see the result in this new photo. i’m going back to the house & may write more later.
jazz 11, 37x35”/89x94cm. as it looked moments ago, at the end of my painting day
3:38 PM: i did more work on jazz 11, extending the grey fully out to the left border and the yellow up to the top. this greatly benefitted the composition as a whole. adding another figure next to the singer, as i did a few hours ago, was juat crowing the composition, so i took it out. i added some darker grey on the lower half of the singer’s dress, which works really well.
that said, there may be a spark missing, and it’s likely i need to start something new, as usual, so that my full attention is not on this painting, which is actually a negative. so i’ll start something tomorrow morning and see where it goes. at some point, the spark may ignite.
DETAIL of the japanese figure i added yesterday
1:30 PM: mikela stopped by on her way to the college in alamosa. she felt that the left portion needed to be filled out somewhat, as did i. i jest needed a second opinion from a trusted eye, and that gave me the courage to go back in to jazz 11, which i sort of considered resolved yesterday.
while i love the changes and additions i made yesterday, in my gut i knew i would have to go back in today. so here’s where it’s it so far, and i’ll continue working right after posting this.