3:04 PM: i just now discovered this undated drawing in my flat files. i think it's quite beautiful, but i can't recall when i made it or who the subjects are.
at work on 2-26-17 creek scroll earlier this morning
12:31 PM: i wanted to see how it was working on the second of 3 rolls of japanese paper i got from blick the other day. it's wider, which i kind of like: 18" compared with 12-14. it takes the color well, but, like the others, is quite sensitive to tears, especially when it's still damp from application of the gouache colors i'm using.
but by far the best feature is the added width, allowing more room for these vertical compositions. i continue to work from a series of photo collages i made at one of our local creeks in the late '90's, which i recently came across in one of my filing cabinets.
you've got to be in the flow when you paint on this paper. there's no going back and correcting. i tried making a preliminary drawing on one of them, a few weeks back, but it didn't work. too constraining, although it will be a week before my glasses arrive, with the new prescription they were able to give me last week, a month after my cataract/glaucoma surgery, my right eye has definitely improved now that it's healed. that's making more of a difference than i had expected. the blurriness i was experiencing, likely from the swelling, is greatly reduced.
7:37 AM: this is another of the recently digitized paintings i picked up from reed photography in denver a few days ago. it'a watercolor made in the mid '70's of a neoclassical house in kifissia, a suburb of athens. i made many of these watercolors of in kifissia, where we lived for a few years when dimitri was a baby.
my plan for later this morning is to start a new creek scroll painting on the second of three new rolls of japanese paper i received from blick recently. it will be the first time i test it out, so i'm anxious to see how it takes the color. i'll post photos as available.