the image that parade 28 is based upon, shot at the met
this afternoon, while mikela was doing a heroic job organizing my studio, which already feels twice as big, i began a complex drawing for parade 28, which will be 24x48." before starting the drawing, she helped me cut the new roll of linen into 6 pieces, which will all become new parade paintings over the coming months.
we're both wiped out, so we'll take a drive into crestone & do some food shopping at elephant cloud before making an early dinner, watching a little tv & going to bed.
cutting the artfix portrait linen into 6 pieces for new parade paintings
10:11AM update: when i get to the studio, i'll tell you the story of how john McEnroe was cheated out of his archiile gorky painting; a battle still being fought in court.
9:17AM : what's up for today philip? well, i plan on making a bunch of parade series drawings on the new roll of portrait linen i received & beginning to stretch them. my thought is to have a group of them lined up & ready to paint, which will take me through the next few months. then i'll ship or perhaps drive them to gremillion in houston, where clients can view & purchase prior to my november show. always nice to have a show where half the pieces are already sold.
BELOW: i just uploaded the images below. i'll talk about them once i'm done meditating.
3:41PM update: i'm going to have to wait till i get back to the house to comment on the photos below.
5:13 commentary on photos below:
from top left top to bottom
1. here's what i saw this morning upon entering my studio
2. just outside my studio was this piece of ice surrounding a pipe.sexy.
3. this morning's coffee: i roasted an ethiopian bean darker than usual as an experiment, way past the first crack. it was a little too close to an espresso taste, but mikela liked it. so i mixed it with a yemeni bean roasted lighter, which you see in the top-most jar, and put the mix in our moka pot. the result was a perfect cup!
4.parade 23 hanging in our living room
5. a 48x32"study in oil on linen for a commission i did. it was for a series of small paintings laminated onto the sides of a specially crafted box designed to hold the olympic pins collection of the client, who lives in houston.
6. detail from rocks and water, 48x48" oil on linen. the entire painting is #7, on the next row. it's part of a series i painted in 2000 and based on photos i too while out by the creek making my plein air paintings.
8. i decided this morning to flip parade 24 90 degrees. i prefer it this way. then i experimented by placing it in the back of a collage, which acted like a "floater" frame. it convinced me that this series will gain tremendously by being framed this way.
9. i made a series of shots looking down our stairs. i'm considering using a few of them for the current series of larger parade paintings.
10 and 11 and 12: salander o'really gallery was a major NYC institution before it closed in 2007 as the result of a huge scandal. mr. salander had been conducting a kind of ponzi scheme, selling 50% ownership of valuable art to 3, 4 even 5 clients, promising them all serious returns on their money. then he would sell the pieces without informing them, creating a huge mess that is still being litigated. john McEnroe was just one of the clients who were scammed. in his case it was a very beautiful archive gorky painting. i met john McEnroe at the gallery of the same name. he looked at my worked and liked it, but his gallery closed soon thereafter, so the conversation never bore fruit. that's one of the finest gorky paintings of that period i've seen. decoding borrowed heavily from him. looking at this piece, i think in many ways he was a finer painter.
