6:30 PM: once i cleaned my brushed, i started my share of the calls we're making to support berni for president. it feels good to be ding my little part in getting him elected. GO BERNIE!!
so work on grey 11 will resume in the morning. what will happen is a mystery. thank god for the mystery!
3:45 PM: stopping here for the day. this will mostly be gone by tomorrow afternoon. so think of it as an underpainting; a sketch; a way of familiarizing myself with the image and a base not for improvisation.
2:20 PM: the canvas has been stretched and the preliminary drawing is done. this drawing, based on vermeer's girl with a pearl earring will be collaged and painted over, creating layers. i've isolated the head, which will fill the 38x38" canvas. vermeer's original painting, (detail below right), is 17.5x15."
DETAIL of the completed grey 10 38x38"
10:50 AM: i'm about to unstretch and restretch grey 10, from a stretcher bar with a masonite backing to one with no backing. the masonite provides a hard surface under the canvas, allowing me to collage onto it, which involves pressing hard into the canvas, without having it give way, thus creating a more secure bond between the paper i'm collaging and the surface of the canvas.
once that maneuver is complete, i can begin grey 11, which i intend to be a companion piece for grey 10, ideally both will be purchased by the same collector & hung, for example, facing each other on opposite walls, or side by side.