Donation continued/Phase 2
I'm already fighting the "precious" problem (that when I like a result I worry about spoiling it) I often face as I work on a piece over time. The whole point of glazing is to layer transparent washes over other elements so it will a battle with myself. Maybe this is why I have avoided working with this technique. Today was an attempt to add tonal elements to the pieces. Tone in painting means dark or light (where a hue/color lands on a grayscale -- how much black or white is added to the original color). Tone is not my strong point. I have a friend who is colorblind and so most of what he sees is tone. I'm attracted to color so I keep trying to pick contrasts and intensity rather than thinking about grayness. I chose a red color and added a drop of black and a drop of green to get a chocolate brown which I washed on shapes that cascade along the horizontal axis of the four panels. I also want to add some opaque elements along the way hoping to increase the feeling of depth. I decided eight thin yellow lines might be nice (one friend described as a double helix though I thought of them as a broken venetian blind). These I placed across the vertical axis though a different friend cautioned me about tying the four panels together with such a strong element. More glazing will take care of that -- I hope.