12/29/20 sound of a flute 78x26”
12/29/20 sound of a flute 2 20x16”
2:32 PM: today i entered my studio in deep despair, and i don’t know why. i had forgotten to take my phone, so i drove back to the house to get it, shared with mikela who gave me a quick pep talk, and returned. i was determined to get some work done. the 78x26” canvas i stretched last month has been leaning against the wall all this time, so i grabbed it & decided that, rather than make a horizontal creek inspired painting, which was my original intention, i would make a vertical. kind of a continuation of my sound of a flute series, informed however by the 165 some odd watercolor/collages i’ve done since then. rather than go over the canvas with a ground color, like the beige i used on most of the sound of a flute series, i started working straight onto the white-primed linen. as i worked, i came across a 20x16” creek-scape i had painted over, and went back & forth between the two, using mostly oil pastel crayons. we’re walking to the stupa in 20 minutes, so i’m going to complete this post & see what happens in the morning.