2020 creek oil 2 26 x 78” as it looked moments ago.
todays palette, with my beloved persian rose in the lower right
2:55 PM: for some reason, which i’m going to attribute to debate exhaution and disgust, my energy is very low and i ache everywhere. mikela is feeling similarly but she has a good reason: the hard face-forward fall she took on our way back down the trail 2 days ago. her eye is totally black & blue, her knee got banged up and her entire body aches.
in any case, although i couldn’t imagine getting any work done today, i made brownies with walnuts and did some work on 2020 creek oil 2. it’s in an interesting place now. basically, i added the two logs you see, the swirls of blue, and those red strands we see growing in the creek, usually emerging from under a log or an embankment.
she loves her long-narrowness, which is very encouraging to my brushes skimming the surface and my palette knife scraping suggestive shapes into the wet oil paint.
she is breathing ok, but not yet singing in full throated bursts of sound, as do the HU. (they do mongolian throat singing with contemporary lyrics….do a youtube search; you will either love or hate them.)
creek oil 2 26x78” as it looks right now, a few days after whiting over it
watercolor-collage 125 10x13”
11:18 am: just arrived in my studio. this is the current state of creek oil 2 and the final version of 2020 watercolor-collage 125. i’ll be getting to work after i meditate & have some coffee.