celebration 21, 32x36” oil & collage on portrait linen at the end of my painting day
3 PM: i shot some photos of the 2024 paris olympics from the tv screen last night and promptly used them in a painting aafter whiting over the one i did yesterday. painting into the still wet white oil paint gives a certain quality which would be impossible to create otherwise. it also gave me a way to eliminate that annoying yellow tone on this portrait linen, which i’m in the process of getting replaced.
so this was one of the guys who did those hard to believe moves on one hand, twirling and bending his body as though it were a piece of liquorice!