jazz 12 35x37”/89x94cm. as it looked at the end of my painting day.
3:50 PM: blue replaces grey: in an unexpected move, i painted out the central female figure and replaced most of the greys with a light cobalt teal bluish. it sets off the oranges from what shows through of the under-painting and created what looks, from this 20 foot distance, to be pure magic!
i feel like i’ve been persuing this result ever since i embarked on my journey with jazz 1, at the beginning of may. it could never have happened without my sometimes wavering but never absent persistance; true of a lot of things in life, isn’t it?
as well, i couldn’t have made these end of day modifications had we gone on our planned trail walk. when mikela asked me how the weather looked, i said they were predicting thunderstorms right about the time we planned on walking. so far they haven’t materialized, but the threat made us cancel our walk and gave me the opportunity to do further work on jazz 12.
BELOW: before and after the changes i just made
detail, showing how the underpainting plays a role
jazz 12 as it looked moments ago, after painting over most of what i did yesterday
2:08 PM: you might ask youself, since he knows when he’s making the first stage of a jazz Iseries painting that the next day he’ll be painting over it, how can he be so ernest about it? can’t answer that.
earlier today i added some figures, two of which are the walking guy in the plaid shirt who, as you know if you read my blog daily, is inspired by a shot from above of the central character in the tv serial the good doctor.
yesterday’s work, which has become an under-painting, peeks through in spots, giving me that unpredictable distribution of shapes & colors i so love. i ran out of the claessens medium texture primed linen i had been using, and until the new rolls arrived, i cut a few pieces from what’s left of my highly prized quadruple primed, VERY expensive, tightly woven artfix portrait linen. you may not be able to discern the difference by looking at an online photo, but in person and up close, the difference is very obvious, especially when i’m painting on it.
most of what i did today was done on my painting table and not with the canvas tacked to the wall. a lot of what i did involved drawing the figures with a brush, and i find this a lot easier when i’m making the drawing while standing, with the canvas on a flat surface.