1:15 PM: celebration VII 16x20” as it looked following the work i did this morning
1:09 PM: we both felt there was too much black in celebration VII, so i worked on it quite a bit, taking out most of the black and revising the entire composition, so that it now sings. what’s most successful in this painting is how the two figures integrate with the basket of fruit and flowers, inspired by a photo i shot decades ago on the deck of a house we were living in in southern europe. if you check out the two details i posted, the fruit and flowers are more clearly visible.