April 13, 2008 Day 359
When I looked at Canvas #37 again this morning (see previous post), I decided there was too much contrast around the edges of the large circles in the perimeter of the painting. I began to fill in these areas with the orange I had mixed yesterday. Then I covered over the circles completely with the orange to tone them down. After that, I began working with the lighter orange, again toning everything down in the next group of circles. After that, I refilled all the small leaf-like spaces, beginning with a pale yellow and working my way to red around the edges. This pretty much took all morning, but I was finally satisfied:
Canvas #37, 40" x 40"
I ran out of 14" x 11" paper, and opened up a 9" x 12" pad in which I found an old drawing with no date on it. I loved its sense of playfulness, and tried to get that same effect in my new one. The old one was made with mixed media, including ball-point pen and pencil, which gave it a lot more interesting set of textures. Here's the old one:
Found Drawing 9" x 12"
Here's my new one:
Drawing #366 9" x 12"
After that, Blixy and the kids came over and we went for a great walk in the woods. It was brisk, but mostly sunny after a bit of rain and snow flurries this morning.
(Note: There is a gap between the dates I'm writing and posting in order to give me time to get ahead.)
