celebration 21, 32x36”, oil & collage on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day today
2:11 PM: yesterdays version was interesting, but too specific and descriptive. ok, so there’s a girl doing a handstand and thbeginnings of a bird…more and more, i’m learning to integrate my passion for painting figures in motion; for creekscapes with pure, painterly marks, giving the viewer space for his/her own creation of a painting. the newly collages calligraphic marks on paper contribute greatly to this integration. they were deliberately placed over more descriptive areas of the composition.
this is leading me towards revisiting, in this spirit, some recent paintings i had considered resolved. we’ll see…