the miracle, 32x36” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day today
3:32 PM: in case you hadn’t noticed, my recent work tends to go through daily transformations….radical transformations. so today, for example, both of these paintings are not at all what they were yesterday. and yet, they are! the layers, the scraping, the painting over again and again, allows me and, more importantly the painting tofind where it needs to go next.
so the miracle as it was before i painted over it yeasterday, is all the better now that i scraped and rubbed away yesterday’s layer of white. some of that white has, inevitably, remained , softening what was too harsh; had too much contrast. the goal always is to reach that place where the viewer’s eye can wander frely over the composition without getting stuck on a particular detail.
in 4/22/25 ano kato, the drawing i made yesterday of a tsaatan woman riding her reindeer, has almost but not quite dissapeared. but enough of it remains, now that i flipped the canvas 360, that, for example the reindeer’s antlers are incorporated into the new architectural composition. it wil become clearer when i take this one to the next stage, that the architecture here is an ancient pompeiian interior in italy.
4/22/25 ano kato, oil on portrait linen, at 3pm today