3:06 PM: this morning, using a wood framed mirror i found in an abandoned stone house on the island of andros in about 1975, i made a self portrait in colored pencil.
this afternoon i transferred images i had shot with a macro lens this past summer on our creek walks from my phone to my imac. i’ll be using some of them for small paintings in gouache & watercolor on paper, starting perhaps as early as tomorrow.
if i appear to be swinging wildly between topics to paint, that’s because i am. you could call it my reaction to the covid-19 situation. right now i would have been preparing for my trip to greece april 11, which of course i cancelled. the situation in greece right now, as elsewhere in the world, is tragic. it may be that shifting my focus to this series of close up images of natural forms will serve to ground me and remind me of my passion for painting patterns,
forms, colors whether representational or otherwise.