Day after Easter, kind of cold and wet, just the weather I like for working in the studio. I'm not drawn outside by sunshine. Still trying to wrestle three paintings to the ground and call them finished. 'Take a Seat' is close, the other two I'm still lost in composition with. One reminds me of a trip to San Miguel Allende and I am still working on capturing the mood of that wonderful place. Today I took a step in that direction, strengthening some darks and defining a few of the shapes. The other is still giving me trouble. I feel like it's almost there except for one shape on the upper right. It is becoming more organic but needs something I can't define. That's the challenge of working with abstraction, knowing when enough is enough.
Day after Easter, kind of cold and wet, just the weather I like for working in the studio. I'm not drawn outside by sunshine. Still trying to wrestle three paintings to the ground and call them finished. 'Take a Seat' is close, the other two I'm still lost in composition with. One reminds me of a trip to San Miguel Allende and I am still working on capturing the mood of that wonderful place. Today I took a step in that direction, strengthening some darks and defining a few of the shapes. The other is still giving me trouble. I feel like it's almost there except for one shape on the upper right. It is becoming more organic but needs something I can't define. That's the challenge of working with abstraction, knowing when enough is enough.
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