6/10/26 oil, 10 3/4x20” as she looked following my rubbing out of what i did this morning.
2:22 PM: when we saw what i had done to this painting, we both felt it had been way better, way more interesting as a painting in the previous version. the oil paint was still fresh enough that i was able to rub out what i did today and now we’ll see where she wants to go tomorrow morning.
i have my mens group meeting at 8, back around 9:30, so i’ll pick up then. she did however lose some of the elements that hadn’t yet dried, so i’ll address that tomorrow.
BELOW: in yesterdays version, on the LEFT, you can see what got rubbed out that i’ll be restoring
6/10/26 oil, 10 3/4x20” as she looked following this mornings burst of energy
9:17 AM: we were going to go for our morning walk and i hadn’t yet meditated. it’s very buggy, so we would have had to stop at the house and get our netting to put over our heads. mikela was deep into a project she has to complete and get out today, so i figured, what the f…k, i may as well do a bit more to yesterdays 10 3/4x20” oil. and of course it transformed radically. goldfish have once again entered the picture, borrowed unashamedly from matisse, and now this is looking like my recent series of 25x25” paintings, but with a light blue instead of the darker blue i had been using. in addition, yesterday’s version contained 3 figures. one has remained visible; his head is just above and to the right of the fish bowl.
so now maybe i’ll take my meditation break and see how i feel about what i did once i emerge.