4:46 PM: i worked kinda late today, and just completed some additions to jazz 18, which now has a new tennis player in the left quadrant of the composition. i also made some refinements to the figures on the right, which can be viewed in the detail photos.the shadows of the players are an important part of the composition, and the scraped over siena ground beneath gives this painting an other worldly feel, which is a lot more evident in person. the addition of the little girl with the hat allows your mind to stray from “oh, this is a painting about the u.s. open” and move to a space of enigma/paradox. all the figures are frozen in time, as are we all.
i can’t be in the studio tomorrow, so work on jazz will continue on friday.
1:16 PM: we took our creek walk this morning & i made a new drawing. i got 10 of them together to see how they look, and here they are. the one on the upper right is today’s, with a piece of map collaged.