continued work on "the last supper" /August 24, 2023 by Philip Tarlow

11:56 AM: i whited over the upper half of the last supper this morning: dressed the bare breasted dinner guest, yellow and blue stripes surrounding the composition and added a patterned area of squares beneath the figure in green.

i see a significant improvement in the overall composition, and my eye is no longer confused by the pink hue of the upper half, as well as the architectural elements , which are now just ghost images. the richness and vibrancy of what’s going on in the lower half now bursts forth in a way that, frankly, overshadows it’s neighbors tacked to my east studio wall.