3:10 PM: today, while an intense thunderstorm was raging outside my studio, i made an 10x8" study in gouache on paper for my next interior oil. i plan on making a few more, until i find the right composition.
i am focused on getting to a point of utter simplification, where 3 or 4 shapes integrate with the colors and drawing in such a way that the eye receives them as a fully formed event, and is not obliged to interpret or in any way think about what this is it is perceiving. it unquestioningly accepts and receives the image in an instant. kind of like the description of a dictatorship, isn't it?
it's not there yet. tomorrow i have an eye appointment, so i'll resume work on these studies on wednesday.