continued work on "celebration 19" & "celebration 20" / by Philip Tarlow

celebration 19 after taking out most of the black i put in earlier

celebration 19 as she looked after lightening the blacks, which were too intense, late this afternoon

celebration 20 as it looked after taking out the tree trunks late this afternoon

4:39 PM: just before leaving the studio, i took out those tree trunks, which were bugging me as well as mikela, who walked over to check it out.

celebration 20 as she looked following today’s work. i was in a yellow mood, so the passage on the right came first, after which i worked on the two tree trunks with branches and the pink areas to the left.

celebration 19 following the work i did today, basically eliminating much of the fuzzy greys and allowing the main figures, including the bird, to pop.

3:26 PM: i added a lot more black to the composition in celebration 19, and continued with my second day of celebration 20.