jazz 17 after adding the figure on the right today
jazz 19, 16x40” on 2 joined canvases, as it looked at the end of my painting day
3:49 PM: once i finished whiting over jazz 18, i moved on to two other canvases. the first is one i took from mt storage roomi wasn’t crazy about it, so i had no problem painting over it, scraping, then painting into it. there seems to be a new wind blowing in my studio, and it’s in the direction of using pre-existing paintings to become the ground for new work. this one will see more changes tomorrow, when we’re not doing our creek walkl & i’ll have time in the morning.
next, i returned to jazz 17, which needed something on the right side of the composition. i sketched in a jumping/flying skateboarder, who has appeared in previous skateboarder paintings. her arms are flailing, her dress flapping in the wind. i think the composition benefits from the addition of this figure, and we’ll see tomorrow morning what, if anything, happens next.
jazz 18, 26x78” as it looked after i went over it with white oil paint, then scraped into it.
2:21 PM: although the siena layer i painted on yesterday hadn’t completely dried, i went over it with white oil paint an hour ago. it’s a provacative surface, as you can see from this detail, so we’ll see where it takes me tomorrow morning.
DETAIL of the whited over jazz 18