the miracle, 32x36” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at the end o fmy painitng day today
3:03 PM: it started last night. i looked at what i had done yesterday, attempting to recreate a 1979 painting, a 1979 spirit, and i knew it had to go the way of other paintings i’ve started and then painted over. that canvas was unwieldy anyway, unstretched as it was. trying to get it from my painting table to the wall was a struggle.
so i cut it in half, and now i’m working on a 32x36” canvas, with the miracle beginnnings flipped upside down and the was, as of now remainting figure standing, as it were , on his head.
i’d been eyeing an old photo collage i have of an interior, lord knows where, that i photographed in the days before digital. i had the prints made and collaged the 10 to12 4x6” photos, creating a long narrow image of the rich interior. so this is now day one, but i’m still calling it the miracle. and it will be one if a decent painting comes out of it!
12:11 PM: this morning i made sometweaks to watercolor/collage 108, which was created a few months ago. there’s a collaged map in the center of the composition which was too dominant, so i collaged over it and added some marks in colored pencil, with the desired result that one’s eye doesn’t get stuck on that map. i think it’s vastly improved, and consider it one of my stronger pieces from that period.
i tried locating the original version in my files, but couldn’t find it. so i renamed it watercolor/collage 108.
watercolor/collage 108, 2025 31x27.75 cm. watercolor & collage on arches watercolor paper