2:14 PM: today i’d say i’m 76% recovered from the fluzone high dose flu shot, especially formulated for those over 65. it definitely has a kick.
shinkei as it looked at the end of my painting day today.
so after putzing around for a few hours….actually I was taking care of some business, I began working again on that delicate shinkei painting, which I hadn’t dared to touch over the past few days. it’s emerging from it’s delicate shell & reminding one more of it’s sisters, thus far numbering 13, plus one that’s been painted over & is awaiting re-stretching, as it was on a warped stretcher bar.
todays palette mid day
mountains, waterfalls, trees & rocks are what they’re all about. they are all inspired by taiga & his 18th century scrolls. the title of the series: sound of a flute, or more fully, sound of a flute over water, (that was too long to use as the official title) says it all. it’s music, which taiga & his cohorts listened to live as they painted. it’s the color of music. and the marks are those a flute might make if it could jump out of the musicians mouth, dip itself in some colors & move across the surface.