celebration XVIII 28x18 1/2” oil on linen at the end of my painting day today
2:49 PM: i continued work, albeit gingerly, on celebration XVIII today and, other than a few tweaks i’ll make tomorrow, it’s resolved. i wanted there to be a lot of white space and at the same time to be a composition with grace and elegance. i purposely left the two figures as just drawings; the tennis player and the guy holding a document he’s reading. the tennis player’s magenta shadow is there, and plays off the violets and blues in the bird’s feathers. tomorrow i’ll extend the brown tree trunk the rest of the way up to that red line, which is where the cnavas will be folded over & attached to the stretcher bars. same with the light blue curved line on the bottom, which needs to go another inch down.