HU 1 following today’s work
2:40 PM: so i brushed aside my morning comments and continued work on hu 1, following a one hour break to deal with the technician who came to set up our new tv. for the most part my attention was on the bottom musician on the lower portion of the composition and the shadows cast by his body & instrument.
i’m out of juice, so let’s see what happens in the morning.
11:40 AM: this morning i saw what i needed to do and did it, before the spirit left or weakened. i was also aware of the time, because we were expecting the technician from directv to come and help us connect our new tv set to the dish.
when a painting is this far along, there’s a moment when you feel what needs to happen, but it can only happen when you grab the brush or oil pastel stick do what it tells you. the greatest amount of time was actually spent on the shadow of the lower musician’s arm, on the right side of the composition. it was too dark, then too light until i realized that it was the space between the shadow and his actual arm that was a big part of the problem. some vertical and horizontal lines helped make it sing.
i won’t do anything more and allow it to breathe until tomorrow morning. , when i cast that all important first glance. so now it’s still early enough to do some work on the second piece of 38x20” linen, originally meant to be a companion piece to hu 1.