This marks the last 3 day workshop of the spring/summer. So I will not have much to post over the insuing 3 days but I do have some images and thoughts for today in the studio
I am finished with this piece and am ready to start work on a more complicated version atop the fibonacci construction that Ian Wegener built for me.
This is a few of the Alluvial Island form I started working with in the early 1980’s and have revisited over the past 4 decades.
I have almost finished this piece as well. I have a simple itroduction of vertical (tree trunk shapes) to add to the way back. A simple repitiion of the mid ground forms but instead of orange on blue it will be blue a top orange.
You can see that I now feel that the back groud mountain or sky color needs to have less white also to fit in the same sense of color agreement.
I am thinking a very light cobalt blue sky and a med grey back mountain color.
The mountain goes to a warm grey rather than a cool grey — something with a hint of the existing peach neutralized down considerably. That keeps a whisper of the warm-cool dialogue in the tree piece, but subordinates it. The cobalt sky above it would then be the coolest, lightest note — which pushes everything down and back the way you want.
I went over the water an additonal layer to reduce the White and replace it with the Bright. This should allow for the intorduction of a light or near white tree trunk structure
The near-white trunk structures i’m planning will read beautifully against that cooled-down field. They'll carry the light forward without competing with the