7:04 PM: a long day, it’s been. mikela came over and took a look, and i’ve decided to leave it as is, at least for now. so i’ll start something new tomorrow, but first i have to stretch a new canvas.
each one is a journey. you don’t know where it’s headed, and there are surprises, especially if you collage. but even if you don’t, marks are uncovered when you scrape; an inspired mark with a loaded brush…
1:39 PM: as work progresses today, what you could call punctuation points are coming into play. i don’t have to enumerate them; just compare this latest image with the one i posted below 2 hours ago.a few areas of white ice forms, along with the strong blues and touches of orange pop the image into focus, giving the eye a kind of home base to return to after roaming the space of this horizontal composition.
4/23/21 creek oil 26x78” at 3:30 pm today
11:32 AM: i went over the painting with a light wash of titanium buff, did a lot of scraping & scrubbing with solvent and began working into it with oil pastel. i’d like to add collaged bits, but i’m going to have to un-stretch it and place it on a hard surface so that the canvas doesn’t give when i start pressing the collaged bit i want to adhere.
if you compare it with yesterday’s version, you will observe that some of the strong diagonal marks indicating tree trunks have been softened or are gone; the strong violet bit on the upper left is integrated into the whole, and some additional rock forms have appeared on the lower right.
4/23/21 creek oil 26x78” at 11:30 am today