3:07 PM: this is where i’m stopping for the day. it’s coming along, but it’s not there yet.needs to breathe. and a dash of red might help. tomorrow. the medium my dear friend john in houston recommended for collaging paper onto the painting is working great!
it’s good that the horizontal branch shape was broken up by the collaged white paper. i especially love that deep red collaged bit of oil palette over on the left.
4/29/21 creek oil at 3pm pm 26x78”
11:51 AM: continued work on 4/29/21 creek oil: i decided a few days ago to paint over one of my sound of a creek series oils, which are all 78x26” so i turned it horizontally and am working into it. i’m awaiting delivery this afternoon of a substance i will use to collage some paper to this one, which is why i placed a piece of masonite the same size as the stretcher bar beneath the canvas, in order to be able to press down on the collaged pieces and secure them to the surface. here’s how this very early stage looks right now.
10:33 AM: while having my matcha tea & bagel this morning, i looked critically at portrait of m.b. and noticed that his teetch needed to be toned down a notch, which i just did. i’ll mail it off monday, and it will be a surprise since he knows i shot photos on that day we stood talking in front of the gallery, and i did mention i might use them to make a small portrait, but he doesn’t know i actually made this painting, so it will come as a surprise. BELOW: you can see the slight difference if you compare the teeth on the let (before) and the right.
4:32 PM: i’ve been going through photos i shot in 2009 at the acropolis museum, which at the time had just opened. there’s a lot of material i’m going to start using once i’ve completed these four creek oils, which my denver gallery requested i make for possible sale to a client.
reflection in the windows of the acropolis museum restaurant & deck
what you are looking at in this photo is a reflection in the windows of the restaurant area of the museum. the hill you see in the background is lykavitos in central athens and the people sitting and eating are on the deck overlooking the acropolis, which is not visible in this shot. it’s a spectacular setting!
and in the photo on the right you see the walkway leading to the museum entrance. in the background is, of course, the acrololis, and beneath the curvedf glass barrier in the foreground you can barely make out the ancient ruins that lie beneath the entire museum and are visible through the glass floor; a brilliant architectural solution.