new ano kato 4 in a temporary frame
starting the drawing for new ano kato 5
1:54 PM: i put new ano kato 4 in a temporary frame, which allows me to evaluate it far better. and now i can consider it resolved and am moving on to the drawing for new ano kato 5. this one is based on photos i shot a few years back, in the BC era (before Covid). some alamosa high school kids were preparing for an outing on the river. their getup was colorful, and seeing them against the backdrop of the river and the tall grasses inspired me to make a new painting. i won’t get past the drawing today though, as it’s our walking day & because of the earlier sunset, we need to leave in about half an hour if we want to get back while it’s still light. it’s still unusually warm for this date: 58.4°F with no wind, so the snow & ice that was on the trail will be almost completely gone, and we can dress lightly. we’ll go a bit further up today, and try to be exceedingly careful on the downhill; i can’t afford another fall!
7:44 PM: today we’re taking or every-other-day trail walk earlier, at 2:30 because the sun is setting at 5 now. so i need to get an early start in my studio. i’m excited by this latest directoin: basically combining my ano kato work with my creek inspired watercolor/collage series. i consider the two most recent paintings in this vein as successes. i do have more ano kato photos to use, but i’d prefer if there were more. i have to do a deeper search, because i know there are others. it’s just that there are over 34,000 iphone photos stored in the cloud and i don’t want to spend too much time searching.
in addition, i want to spend time each week researching ways of selling my paintings online. galleries aren’t doing much these days, but there’s a thriving market for paintings online. and with my CV, having my work in so many private, corporate & museum collections, my work should be attractive to potential buyers. there’s a sales portal right here on squarespece; i should start there & learn how to use it!
found this photo of me holding my grandson philip in andros when he was a baby while searching through my icloud photos. philip will turn 15 in july.