minoan celebration, 38x38” as she looked at the end of my painting day today.
3:57 PM: i got a bit of a late start today, resuming work on minoan celebration at about noon. the minoan inspired bull’s head has gone through many transfromations; yesterdays version needed to have less intensity, as it was grabbing your eye when you looked at the composition. it’s better, but not quite there yet.
there was a point earlier when i whited over it completely, and whn i scrpaed away most of the white, it reduced the intensity and brought it more in harmony with the rest of the composition. i also modified the grey to the left of the bull’s head as well as introducing some of the square patterning we see on the right. at the very last minute, before cleaning my brushes, i introduced the light blue you see just to the right of the bull’s nostrils.
BELOW: yesterdays version is on the left