the bar, 18x20” at 3:15pm today
1:30 PM: lotsa changes this morning to the bar….for the better i think.williamsburg graphite grey is a new favorite color, which i’ve employed to reduce the background confusion and allow the figures to pop. i’m using some new oil colors i recently got, including W-N copper, which is more interesting than i expected. if you want to learn what it looks like, that’s what i used for the bottles just above the bartender’s arm.
the central female figure is now clothed, and the figure of the bartender is a bit more defined. as a composition, there’s enough white space remaining to balance the graphite greys, and the forms are definitely relecting all that i’ve been reading and absorbing every evening in the matisse bio.
3:15: i cut out a piece of white paper and stuck it over the femaile figure, which was bugging me.
but now i’m liking that white piece of paper! it works compositionally and adds mystery to the whole.
it’s being held in place by the wet oil paint underneath. but tomorrow, i may peel it off and attach it permanantly with some adhesive i have, designed for something like this.
DETAIL: the bartender with the W&N copper bottles
this is the link to view my drawings from greece: https://www.philiptarlow.com/drawings-from-greece