canvas 19 following a 4:40 pm scraping
5:15 PM: i returned to the studio briefly at 4:30. i scraped the still fresh paint, so that it now looks like what you see ABOVE. that sets it up for tomorrow morning, when i’ll work back into it.
i love workng back into a surface like this. love it! why? in one system of identifying personality types, i fall into the “random abstract” group. so the suface created after scraping over what i’ve done today, the unintended, unpredictable marks and blending of colors awaken my random abstract nature.
in 2 short minutes, a bike rider taking a spill morphs into suggestive biomorphic shapes. the surface has come alive!
canvas 19 stage 3, as it looked moments ago
3:46 PM: i’m done for the day. I took it a lot further, but I think it still needs work. the biker flying off his upside down bike is too dominant and needs to be more integrated into the whole. it looks better in person, from about 20 feet away, than on the screen; some paintings are like that. lets see how I feel about it in the morning.
2:46 PM: I made the first marks today on this next painting in my polyptych series: canvas 19. here are the first two stages. i’m still working, so i’ll post more later in the afternoon. all i’ll say right now is that the central (and only) figure is a tokyo olympics competition bicyclist flying off his bike, upside down.
BELOW: stages 1 & 2
