celebration V 14x16” as it looked at the end o fmy painting day today
celebration VI, 16x20” at the end of day 1
2:44 PM: i added a few strokes on the upper right deliniating architectural details of the museum, then started celebration VI, which continues the series, but with 9 slightly larger canvases: 16x20” instead of 14x16”
having introduced them in many recent paintings, i know my cast of characters well. this allows me to paint them with a highe rlevel of certainty and playfulness. they are increasingly incorporated into the composition more as forms and colors and less as a guy doing a handstand. i’d say that, so far, that’s more true of this one than the previous ones. and, as matisse famously said, "you don’t wait for the inspiration; it comes as you’re working.”