Here’s how the painting looks on Friday night. I put the study on a table beside the easel to make it easier to draw from. The picture begins to feel more solid after a day of work. I love painting that vase — and I’m not done yet. The paint all over the canvas is very thick because I’m covering up parts of the earlier version. There’s still lots of things to figure out, of course — like the entire bunched up green cloth that takes up the whole bottom half.
Here’s a closer view. The painting measures 40 x 30 inches.
What a fun day of painting, working on this picture. You cannot look at blue and green all day with scattered red and yellow and violet and not be in a terrific mood.
Still quite a ways to go. But I’m very glad with this stage.
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