Worked on my large vertical piece of Nantucket cranberry bogs today, introducing some of Bert’s suggestions from the other day. I am at the glazing stage, mostly, and that takes time, a little one day, let it dry, a little the next, with the goal of a richness and depth of color: I glaze back the underlayment again and again and then add highlights. I hope to impart the interplay between dense, compact color areas and lighter, dynamic surface brushstokes to suggest the sense of the autumnal weedy bogs, saturated with the cranberry color, here and there . But I need to keep it loose, and not overwork it into a too representational rendering.I am having trouble with the color of the water. I have decided to wash the sky almost completely white.
Went back in the night, while John and Rebecca were enjoying Tosca in New York at the Met, and worked on it further. The dogs were in a frenzy for me to come to bed, Szuszi kept rushing into the studio and yelling at me, but I did not leave the studio til almost 3 AM! A photo will come soon, but it needs some more glazing, and dulling down.
Went back in the night, while John and Rebecca were enjoying Tosca in New York at the Met, and worked on it further. The dogs were in a frenzy for me to come to bed, Szuszi kept rushing into the studio and yelling at me, but I did not leave the studio til almost 3 AM! A photo will come soon, but it needs some more glazing, and dulling down.
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