Proposal inspired by Picasso-Bob

The painting "Pipe, Glass and Playing Card" in the Picasso exhibit immediately spoke to me.  It is a small rather unassuming piece that had two outer concentric bands of white framing a color still life.  It made me think of art work employing concentric squares as compositional elements by Rothko and especially Albers in his "Homage to the Square".     The use of the two banded areas of white/neural color framing the image suggested itself as a compositional approach to my current work in both the dragonfly and figurative subject series.      My first piece starts with Chinese newspaper covering a 16"x20" canvas.  I envision the two outer neutral bands as layers of translucent gray and white that allows some of the paper to show through as texture.   Instead of a still-life image, I will probably use a color transfer of a dragonfly for the first piece.   I'd like to further explore the concept with a figurative subject; perhaps using a group of figures and on a larger scale.