cutting 2 pieces of portrait linen this afternoon
4:41 PM: after much contemplation and head trips during our trail walk, i took the step, opened the 85” tube with 5yardsx84” of the finest french portrait linen and started out by cutting 2 pieces, which will give me 2 stretched canvases, each 36 x 42.” my feeling is that i want to integrate the 3 or 4 directions i’ve explored over the past decade or so. the new paintings will integrate skies; views of people from above, some of them french open tennis players, creek-scapes, possibly interiors….i can sort of see these paintings; they dance into my consciousness fleetingly ….they tumble about and give me brief windows into a world i don’t yet know but i do. all the images stored in my consciousness, the colors and forms, they slide swiftly into my physical body, travel down my arm into my hand and fingers holding a brush or palette knife.
i’m thinking i may work on unstretched canavs tacked to the wall, in part because i haven’t yet ordered the stretcher bars.
1:43 PM: we walked up the trail this morning at 10; 4 hours later than usual, so the temperature was on the edge of being comfortable at about 65F. as always what we observed as we walked was magical.