BELOW: my son dimitri just emailed a photo of this new painting by my 10 year old grandson philip, who lives in athens, greece. he has made some discoveries in patterning and color that i can learn from. elements of abstraction are married with realist components. i especially love the rays of light emitting from the lamp.
next to philip's painting is a modigliani portrait of jean cocteau with interesting similarities.
4PM update: below is parade 35 at the end of my painting day today. i'm deliberately progressing slowly so as not to disturb the transcendent, dream-like quality this one has. it will probably be complete by the weekend.
12:51PM update:
below, a look at the work i've done so far today on parade 35 and, on the right, my early afternoon snack, sitting dangerously close to my palette!
GREECE:
the latest news is not great. read this dailykos post to learn some of where things are at. I have a direct interest in what transpires in greece because, as many of you know, i lived there for 15 unbroken years, speak and write the language and my son, theatre producer dimitris tarlow and 2 grandkids live there. copy & paste this link into your browser to read the article:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/06/1376046/-Is-There-Hope-for-Greece#
to visit the english speaking version of dimitri's theatre site: http://poreiatheatre.com/en/
8AM update: T.S.ELIOT
some mornings upon waking i take a book from my bedside table and open it at random.this morning it was selectsed poems: t.s.eliot. i opened to page 42: whispers of immortality. and my eyes were drawn to these final 4 stanzas:
now that you've read the final stanzas, here are the first four:
