TM9741 Joy in the Morning, Too oil on panel 36x42
I never know how a painting will resolve. The original idea comes from so many places. First there is the location, the inspiration for this painting came from memories of a summer walk at my favorite pond, angles provided by reflections and branches in the water. But suddenly the creek by my studio intruded, bringing overhanging boughs and leaves, and a closer sense of space. Then I had some wonderful news, and the whole palette lightened. The color exploded. The painting could barely contain itself. And then there are the aesthetic references. I've always been amazed by De Kooning's mural for theater - his use of thin paint and the way he let the lines exist, forthrightly and on their own, co-existing with the blocks of color. So there you have it. The biography of Joy in the Morning, Too. Details below.
TM9741 Joy in the Morning, Too - detail from center top edge of painting showing use of layered graphite pencil and oil paint
TM9741 Joy in the Morning, Too - detail from center
TM9741 Joy in the Morning, Too - detail from lower left
Technical painting notes: I started by rolling thinned, blackish oil paint onto the primed panel to place the major lines and compositional basics. When this first layer was dry, I glazed the whole piece with an array of blues and greens, then started to define the major areas of water and foliage with oil paint and a soft brush. After a day of tightening up the image, I used soft rubber rollers to "glaze" semi-transparent color and loosen up the image, drawing and redrawing specific details. When these layers were dry, I went back in with some brushed details, more drawing, and layers of the thinned, rolled, semi-transparent oil color.
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