3:47 PM: i went back & forth between these 2 paintings today, using discoveries and solutions i found in one and applying them to the other. they are both part of a new, lighter touch, with lots of white space in an uncrowded composition.
BELOW: celebration 26 before and after the white-over
12:14 PM: celebration 26 has been hanging in the house for the past week or two. as has been happening with other recent paintings, the more i gazed at it, the more it bothered me that here was so much going on my eye didn’t know where to rest.
so this morning i brought it back to the studio and began whiting over quite a bit.