5/1/22 oil/collage as it looked at the end of my painting day today
4:31 PM: ABOVE is where the painting is currently at at the end of my painting day today. there’s more complexity, and I do like those grays that entered the composition beneath the dancing figure with the red shoes and patterned black trousers. I put a bit more red into the shorts of the central figure, which is like an anchor and counterpoint for all the blues floating about.
waddaya think of my new blue/green shoes?
3:18 PM: I spent all morning putting together a going away present for k., who I mentored here in the studio a few years ago. he’s leaving for college, where he’ll study art, and we’re invited to his going away party tomorrow. at firsts I was hjust going to give him a brand new travel sketch and drawing book; the kind i’ve been using for years when we traveled. I made hundreds of drawing in those books, almost all of them with colored pencils.
but slowly my desire to give him a going away present turned into a project. I used a melange of photos i’ve shot of him at work in the studio to decorate a cardboard box, which once housed my new indoor/outdoor wireless weather station and was the perfect size.
i’ll have to get his permission to post pics of the decorated box, which he’ll likely give me tomorrow afternoon at the party.
so once I completed that project, I unstretched one of the paintings I didn’t include in my current show because of the warped stretcher bars. the gallery has a guy who makes totally true ones, so I ordered one to fit this painting and will stretch it when we’re in denver for my talk on friday, then include it in the show.
then if finally dove back in to 5/1/22 oil/collage. i’m still taking it slow, to preserve precious while space. so here’s where it’s at:
k. in my studio, at work on a sky painting a few years ago