10:25 PM: the whatever has been done, as well as the scraping. the wrinkles you see will disappear once the paint dries in a few days and I un-stretch and re-stretch the canvas after removing the masonite screwed onto the stretcher bars. at that point, there will be no more collaging, and i’ll add some marks in oil paint that will complete this painting. it will then be placed in it’s frame, which you see below sitting in our living room.
what has now become the underpainting, is a ghost image beneath the newly applied white paint. if you look back in the history of art, you’ll find many examples of artists who have partially or completely painted over what they’ve just done; matisse and van gogh being two of the most well known. here’s the dictionary definition:
“A pentimento (plural pentimenti), in painting, is "the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over". The word is Italian for 'repentance', from the verb pentirsi, meaning 'to repent'.”
9:02 AM: today is a short day. we’re driving 45 minutes south to center fro the solstice celebration, with music & other entertainment. mikela is anxious for me to get to know this little mid-valley town, as she’s been going there introducing kids & teachers to our educational platform, actionlab360.
i’ll let you know how it goes. in the meantime, this morning i’m doing a big whiteover & scraping of 6/17/2021 creek oil . here’s today’s self portrait, which may become a painting.
self portrait at 8:55 am, 6/19/2021