Why?

I have spent several more days working on blocking in the figures. WHY?
I should have left it alone.
The strength and power in the last version versus the after selection, makes me wonder WHY?
I sometimes think I have this "mind's eye" view that I cannot see past all the faults.
I use to take the work and put it in front of a mirror so that I could see the work in reverse and take what my mind thought it saw out of the equation, I didn't. WHY?

This is the third version of blocking in and I find it funny that I am almost back exactly were I was when I started.

OK, to keep asking this particular question will not get me anywhere.
I need to move on and finish this piece.
Add more drama, more power, more passion.....then it will be finished and I will not care WHY?

Jumping over the Hurdles.

Got to a point where I liked the abstracted background and figured it was time to tackle blocking in the figures. It is going slowly and I keep playing around with the positions.

The clients liked this particular image after sending them about 10 to select from. I made it clear that as I worked the actual image would probably have changes.
I guess my biggest fear is that I am not getting the passion from my original 4 pieces and that has now become my hurdle to jump. Here is the preliminary block in...I expect it will have multitude of changes. Hope it doesn't lose the grace or the passion that I am going for.....

Background Noise...

RealLife things have kept me from posting but not totally from working on the commission piece. The clients have decided on the colors as well as the image that they would like to include.

I am working on the back ground and despite a few problems...such as the canvas not tightening up, have been at least getting somewhere with the layers and colors.



you can probably see where the canvas kept hitting the support board, because the canvas was sagging, and that stopped the paint from flowing the length of the board. I restretched the canvas and hopefully will be able to correct that problem.



I worked on this a little more adding color and pattern to the area that broke the painting into top and bottom. I believe the pattern is now a little more cohesive.


I will put a wash over the final layer to reduce some of the patterns and next I will begin to add the figures that were selected..."Tango of Love".