4:46 PM: i didn’t do any more work on yesterday’s gouache: portrait of m.b. instead, i was moved to do a bit of studio organization and cleanup. there’s a lot more to do, but, as you can see from the comparative photos below, the space does feel more open. i focused a lot on that west wall which, as you can see in the photo on the left, was piled with painintgs in a disorganized mess. post cleanup, on the right, all those paintings have been consolidated in the corner, leaving my painting wall as open as possible, until we can move those paintingsup ot the loft and, eventually, into a storage container outside the studio.