2:47 PM: at this point, i’m counting the days until the 10x20’ storage space addition to my studio is completed and ready. i will start moving stuff in that very day, and start painting again the following day. i was in the studio this morning and took this shot of my painting table, awaiting my return.
after having had almost a week to study 9/22/2021 painting/collage, 42 x 54 in., currently hanging in our west facing living room, i’ve concluded, and mikela agrees, that this painting is not resolved. so once i get back to work, this is likely where i’ll begin.
BELOW, you see the painting in it’s current state. while the tennis player in the red shirt is an interesting figure, it doesn’t integrate well into the composition as a whole. if you put your finger over her, you’ll see what i’m getting at. and the central paddler figure needs to pop more.
we’ll see what happens in a week or so.
3:10 PM: while having my breakfast, i generally browse one or moe of my books. today it was the sketchbooks of picasso. this is a drawing he made in 1962, when he was 81. the livliness of his marks is more pronounced than ever. his compositional brilliance boggles the mind. it’s so revealing to look at these drawings/sketches
and when you look at the six month progression of this 1945 painting, BELOW, you get a better sense of his process; what he kept, what he let go of and how much of the open, white space he chose to keep.