Step 5Everything is touched with basic local colors, and the modeling of volumes is fairly close to where it needs to be. I can now start to finesse the color and value relationships.
A couple of comments about the composition: The squiggles in the background are strips of masking tape that Olé uses to create sharp edges in his work. They are stuck to the studio wall after being stripped from canvases in progress. Interestingly, though he seldom leaves the actual tape on the surface of the painting, Olé often adds simple, but illusionistic painted renderings of tape strips in his compositions. In his studio, some walls are covered with clear polyethylene sheeting to make removal and reuse of the tape easier. The plastic sheets make a nice reflective sparkle along their creases, but I may not include that detail in this small painting.
Olsen is a retired professor of art and in his classes he cautioned against certain awkward compositional elements that halt the eye's movement around the image in a detrimental way. One of his bugaboos is the "triangle in the corner." As an homage to his teaching, I positioned the stretcher bar and brace of a canvas leaning against his studio wall to bear a literal corner triangle down upon his back and shoulder.
A couple of comments about the composition: The squiggles in the background are strips of masking tape that Olé uses to create sharp edges in his work. They are stuck to the studio wall after being stripped from canvases in progress. Interestingly, though he seldom leaves the actual tape on the surface of the painting, Olé often adds simple, but illusionistic painted renderings of tape strips in his compositions. In his studio, some walls are covered with clear polyethylene sheeting to make removal and reuse of the tape easier. The plastic sheets make a nice reflective sparkle along their creases, but I may not include that detail in this small painting.
Olsen is a retired professor of art and in his classes he cautioned against certain awkward compositional elements that halt the eye's movement around the image in a detrimental way. One of his bugaboos is the "triangle in the corner." As an homage to his teaching, I positioned the stretcher bar and brace of a canvas leaning against his studio wall to bear a literal corner triangle down upon his back and shoulder.
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