2:40 PM: i’m about ready to stop for the day so we can take our stupa walk. i’m glad i decided to warm back up to painting in oil with this smaller 32x32” canvas, before moving on to the long, narrow 26x78” one. what you see here is stage 1, which will likely change significantly tomorrow morning. i’d like to see the blues toned down. i may work on it lying flat on my sawhorses tomorrow, which allows me more freedom of movement and less plotting and planning. more kinesthetic, less head.
i might, looking at it now, paint over the whole thing; an option i didn’t have while i was making all those 165 watercolors!
at work this morning on a new oil painting
12:41 PM: i can’t really tell you how long it’s been since i painted in oil on linen. a very long time. in covid time, years. centuries.
so i started with the 32x32” one i stretched last week, leaving the 26x78” i stretched yesterday till after i warm up. my new ability to drip, scrape and sweep my arm is intoxicating. it reminds me of why i switched to watercolors way back then: my shoulder injury. no sign of that today, although i do need to be careful. careful and oil painting don’t, however, go well together.
i’ll post updated pics later this afternoon.