2:59 PM: celebration 19 following the addition of a dancing femaile figure with patterned shorts
2:57 PM: after gazing at it for a few hours, i felt it needed something. so i added the femaile dancing figure who has appeared and previous compositions. those checkered shorts and bare breasts add zing.
celebration 19 20x38” oil on portrait linenm as it looked following extensive modifications this morning
11:30 AM: this morning before even having my breakfast, i made new modifications to celebration 19.
i employed only two colors in these modifications: black & white. some scraping was invloved, and i used a rag soaked with odorless mineral spirits to remove unwanted areas that had been painted over.
the result is looking more in the direction of my heroes, deKooning/gorky/freud/vuillard/and yes…rembrandt than the previous state. in other words, more painterly, which is always what i strive for. what stands in the way, with hands on hips, is my f—-ing MIND!
BELOW is the previous version, which now looks to me like an interesting composition with a centrally located large bird.
celebration 19 as she looked yesterday afternoon