afternoon moonlight, 42x18” as she looked moments ago
2:37 PM: since my 12:34 post, afternoon moonlight has radically transformed. what i had done this morning has been scrubbed out, leaving only faint traces, and 3 familiar figures have appeared on the glass floor of the musuem. the look & feel of the compositin is now more in alignment with what i’ve been doing over the past year, leaving lots of white or in this case off white space so that the painting and the viewer can breathe deeply.
every new painting is an adventure, a journey with destinaation unknown. over recent months, as i’ve said, a menagerie of figures, mostly viewed from above, populate the journey. this couple are players in that journey. they are integrated into an architectural compositiokn; in this case the glass floor of a contemporary museum, gazing at works of art while themselves are unwittingly the subject of such a work.
12:34 PM: afternoon moonlight, 42x18” has jumped from a rough sketch yesterday to an almost (?) complete painiting at noon today. i forgot all about my molar/gum pain as i immersed myself in this new one.
it has gone further than i expected today, and i ran out of steam about an hour ago, so now i’m gazing at it to determine what, if anything is next.
afternoon moonlight, 42x18”, oil on portrait linen