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| Banquet...fifth and sixth passes |
were carried out with the intent of bringing the work up to my own personal sense of aesthetics. Up to this point, I had been primarily concerned with reality....describing the individual elements as well as using hard and soft edges to initiate a flow. The painting had been drying over the weekend. Large transparent cad yellow pale and blue-violet strokes were added vertically and rhythmically, primarily to offset the horizontal nature of the work. But also to bring the corners in....to stop the action somewhat at the ends of the canvas. And, also to break up the tightened restraints of the reality painting. I also decided that the background and foreground white cloth were too similar in value, so I stroked in a darker tint mix with terra rosa to the background, in a patchy way to emulate the look of plaster. Now we are cooking, so to speak.
