I was being coy about chrome green - I'm out because I've added it to every color in this painting. Its an experiment. I'm trying to keep the colors in the same tonal range, and I'm trying to avoid any electro-fauve extremism. I think it makes the picture look kind of morose - like its about to rain. Like Rakim (JEEZ - I mean ERIC B: shouldn't post before 9 AM), I speak with my hands so I figure the less explaining I do, the better. But before I stop explaining let me talk more about how I work - when I come to a place where I can stop, I carry the painting around with me for awhile so I can look at it. I hang it up in the kitchen, I lean it against the wall so I can see it when I'm working.
Which means I've looked and looked, and tuned something up here, and messed something up over there and now I'm sick of looking at this picture. I'm ready to declare victory, and because I never finish, I abandon - all hands on deck.
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