sangres sunset as she looked at the end of my painting day today
3:44 PM: i’m stopping here for the day, but i’m not done by any means. for one thing, the color of the sangres will become more golden…
sangres sunset, 16x66” oil on portrait linen, as she looked moments ago….still working…
1:32 PM: i’m taking sangres sunset to the next level today & here’s how she looks at the moment.
sangres sunset as she looked at the end of the day yesterday
a print-out of the sangres sunsey photo i shot through the ecreen of our bathroom window a few days ago
8:17 AM: i don’t usually post on my blog this early, but i’m in the mood. sangres sunset brings up a bit of fear and dread; where will she want to go next? no preconceptions is the rule of thumb, but she started out with these shots of the sunset i took through the screen in our bathroom, which is where the dotted patterning came from. it made me want to use it in a painting. so, not having the right size stretcher bars handy, i found an older stretched canvas with a partially completed painting i didn’t really care about. thus began yesterday’s process of unstretching the older painting, squaring up the stretcher bars & stabilizing them with corner braces and cutting and stretching a piece of my beautiful primed portrait linen. i can’t imagine painting on the older, rougher linen i had before, so i’ll be ordering 84” long rolls of this rather expensive canvas in the future.
i hadn’t anticipated getting as far as i did yesterday afternoon, especially since all that physical activity triggered my strained groin muscle pain & i had to apply ice. but there you go, i jumped in and began with sky, but two figures unexpectedly jumped in from photos i recently shot in salida of visitors to the beautiful riverside spot.
on another note, this is turning out to be an intense mosquito season. just last night i got about 40 of them on the bedroom walls with my handy dandy exterminator , a tennis racket-like tool with a button the electrifies it’s web of metal strands and makes a popping sound accompanied by a flash & and acrid whiff of dead mosquito whenever i get one of them. they are especially fond of mikela.