12:50 PM: this is where i’m stopping for the day. I tried talking it further, but I was in my head so I had to wipe it out. this composition wants to be just as you see it: few colors, lots of white space, all the action in the center, and the viewer does the rest.
10:55 AM: my intention, when I gathered my recent photos of the interior of a friend’s home with 2 cello players playing for us, was to stretch some small canvasses and make a series of paintings.
this morning I broke out my trusty collapsable wooden easel; one of the few things I brought back with me when I returned from my 15 years in greece, in 1978-9. I had purchased it in Paris in the early ‘70’s and used it extensively when I painted plain air, mostly on the cycladic island of andros.
I haven’t used it in a while, so it was in my newly built storage space. I started painting about an hour ago, and will continue as long as I have juice.