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The Fourth of July – in progress
September 25, 2008
The Fourth of July In progress, 36 x 48 x 2 inches Acrylics on wrapped canvas, custom built stretcher frame.
June 22, 23, Sept 23, 24: Adding mid-tones. The addition of a blue-white haze gel wash lightens areas that need to be rebuilt with brighter colors; in attempts to create contrasts, many areas have become too dark. Paintings always swing back and forth from too light to too dark or too defined to not defined enough, and just like a pendulum eventually come to rest between the two. I hope to bring the painting back toward the energy and explosive colors that it had after only one hour of work. Only the foreground flowers will have some detail; the rest will remain impressionistic in style.
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September 24th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
You are the queen of revisions! This is gorgeous!
September 25th, 2008 at 11:49 am
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/ Well, I could use a few pointers from Princess KnowingWhenToStop every once in a while! This is not so much a revision as a continuation after starting work that had to be set aside because of travel. Then again, I suppose revision does describe my overall method of painting; staying open to change if that’s what the particular work commands. Thanks as always for the encouragement Virginia.