celebration 27 following the tweak to the lower right portion.
BELOW: before and after taking out the bit of drawing in the lower right
3:54 PM: i made one tweak to celebration 27 before ending my painting day today. if you look at the image of the painting i posted earlier, at 1:21, you will notice a drawing of the pelvis and legs of a female on the lower right. that was what remained of my original direction, which was to use a photo of a tennis player from the 2024 tokyo olympics about to serve. it no longer belonged in this new composition, so i took it out, revealing the blank white canvas.
1:21 PM: go with your gut is the way to operate as a painter. today, aftyer my all important first gaze, my gut said collage. so i made some new drawings with my black litho pencil, cut them up and began the colllaging process. where should each cut up piece go? try here, try there, go with your gut!
a few areas were too bright, so i went back in the a light grey, teasing the surface without making heavy marks. here’s how she looked moments ago.