Moving to Canvas

#16

The first step moving from paper to canvas was to lay out the perspective grid again and re-draw the figures from slide projections, including all the changes. [16]  The large areas of dark were patched in with brown paper and the figures shaded with a raw umber grisaille. Now it was time to think again about the center.

With Rainbow’s help, we provided the back-looking prone hailing figure with a front-looking supine companion. [18]

#18A

#18

This yin-yang pair is lively enough to hold the center. [18A] I don’t want it to be “about” any central figure. Even the god with his drum is leading from off-center.

After filling in some colors of the landscape, and locating some of the plants, [19] I realized that finishing it with a layer of color, under-painting all the figures, would take most of the winter.  With the return of warm weather I can go back to the problem of outdoor light.

#19

Here are some of the squares in my composition [20].

#20

The curve of one diagonal, as it falls, follows the line of the trees on the right. Shall I move the trees on the left a little further in to the edge of the other square?

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