12:07 PM:about to start the first new ano kato gouache; i’ll update when i can…
ano kato II 1 10x13” gouache on paper
i started, and perhaps completed the first small ano kato II gouache, which is 10x13” not yet sure where this is headed, but i will likely make a few more of these small gouaches before moving, perhaps, to a mid-sized oil on linen. there’s a newfound freedom entering the picture. in the first ano kato series, the figures were not as loose. something new is emerging, and i just have to stay with it to learn what that is.
this is, by the way, based upon one of the photos i shot in the then brand new acropolis museum in athens in 2009. the floors, as you will see in future paintings, are transparent, allowing for some very interesting lighting effects and, on the lower floor, permitting a view of the ancient ruins upon which the museum was built.