4/23/21 creek oil 26x78” at the end of my painting day
3:28 PM: shall we call this end of day jazzI? if you are a regular, you know this happens almost every day: after cleaning my brushes and preparing to walk out the door & go back to the house, i get a sudden urge to do what could be compared to a jazz riff. i take what i’ve done & riffa bit. enough to make a difference, but completely in tune with what already exists. call it what you will; a riff; a scrumble; a flish…it usually works in that it gives more poetic meaning to what happened earlir and, in this case, introduces a new color: blue.
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2:34 PM: i started work on 4/23/21 creek oil a while ago, so far limiting my palette to three or four colors and maintaining lots of white space.
4/23/21 creek oil at 2:15 pm.
12:46 PM: i was able to get out the ripples in the canvas by removing some staples & re-stretching those areas. so i’m ready to start painting. i’ll update later this afternoon. we got a little wet snow last night; maybe 1/4 to 1/2”…not much but every little bit counts, to keep us out of extreme drought.