The neons have been delivered! Finally, I took these paintings that I have worked on for almost two years and delivered them to the Jacobs Gallery. The show is called Rhythm, and will feature my neon sign paintings in watercolor, as well as beautiful stone sculptures and some very impressive prints. I'm really looking forward to seeing them all hanging in the gallery, framed and matted! The show opens this Friday evening at 5:30.
The bottom picture is the original image. When it was almost finished, I took it to be critiqued and we all felt the background was too strong in color. After stripping out the intensity, the blue looks fresher, as though the dragon can finally breathe free. Note the changes in the fire at the head of the dragon. It is much clearer and we have strengthened the lines as well by changing some of the values. Taking the bold chance of making such big changes so late in the painting is not for the faint of heart. Yes you will solve the obvious problem, but what others will this change create? I had decided that if I hated it I could always start over. In the end, I was happy and called it DONE.
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