1:35 PM: it’s a cloudy, snowy, cold day. current temperature is 20F, dropping to 8F tonight.
i’m making the preliminary sketches for the next watercolor/collage, which will likely include figures in our entryway photographed from above. they had just come into our entryway & mikela is giving one of them a hug. it remains to be seen how these figures will be used in the final version of watercolor/collage 150.
here’s a shot of me painting plein air in 2009. i’m in heaven, unaware of the passage of time, any possible discomfort at sitting for hours on this little canvas stool, enlivened by the sights and fragrances.
let’s see if i can get back out there next spring…
painting plein air at the creek, 2009
this is a 2016 painting in progress i just came across while searching through my files. the final painting looked nothing like this, and i don’t know which one it is, although i could likely find out by going back through my records. i find the colors interesting. i love that pink with the grey & pale green on the upper right.what interests me right now however is how these forms and colors can be traced through the arc of my development.
and BELOW is another one i just came across. it’s one of my gaze series paintings in progress, also from 2016. and, like the one i speak of above, it no longer existsin this state. fayum portraits lend themselves to painterly interpretations such as this. the artists who created them were likely descendants of ancient greek painters whose work has been destroyed or losr over time. whereas these 1st c. portraits survived as a direct result of being placed in mummy cases and buried in the dry egyptian earth, where no moisture could infiltrate.