6:02 pm: for a while now, i've been alluding to a hankering i've been having to return to oil paint. so i looked through some old files containing many of my thousands of photographs. every june, for example, on my walk to the studio, i shoot the blooming cacti, which only last a few weeks.
so i began a drawing for a 16x16" painting in oil on linen. it's not going to be based on this particular photo, but one very much like it. i stretched a canvas and created a tinted ground . i love to paint on tinted grounds.
i'll continue making the drawing tomorrow, and probably start the new painting on friday.