fear no more III, 24xx20” as she looked following this morning’s tweaks
2:52 PM: you can see the tweaks i made today in the comparative photos BELOW.
fear no more III on day 4: cleaning house /
fear no more III, 24x20” oil & collage on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my day in the studio.
12:50 PM: this morning i cleaned house, removing much of yesterday’s work. it can breathe deeply now.
BELOW: fear no more III LEFT: as she looked yesterday and RIGHT: today
fear no more III, on day 3 /
fear no more III
2:14 PM: i made some tweaks to fear no more III, mostly on the right side of the composition, and also to the female figure carrying her red bag. as well, i introduced the dividers of the large tiles beneath the feet of the two figures, and a grey wedgle-like shape on the upper left corner.
"fear no more III," day 2 /
1:38 PM: fear no more III, 24x20” which i started working on yesterday, has gone further, with quite a few newly collaged elements and the woman with the red bag, who has appeared in my views from above series.
fear no more III on day 1 / 2019 creekscape modifications /
2:22 PM: i’m still contemplating fear no more II and getting a feel for whether it needs more work.
so i started fear no more III, which is in her early stages, using the same two dancing figures as II.
i also made further additions to the 2019 creekscape i found the other day in a pile of 2019 paintings.
fear no more III, 20x24” on day 1
fear no more ll /
fear no more II , 20x24”, oil & collage on portrait linen, as she looked moments ago.
2:09 PM: after making a small but significant tweak to fear no more this morning, i got started on fear no more II which, for the moment, is a horizontal, 20x24” a leopard sculpture appears on the lower right, along with 2 dancers center stage. already there are 2 pieces of collaged quill pen drawings, and i’m sure there will be more as the painting progresses.
BELOW: on the right is the tweaked fear no more. the rectangular collaged paper at the top has had it’s upper left corner rounded out, making a significant difference for the better to the entire composition.
fear no more /
2:32 PM: fear no more has taken an unexpected turn. where will she go from here?
fear no more painted over / rework of 2019 creekscape /
2:32 PM: i found yesterday’s version of fear no more too busy and painted over it with bismuth vanadate yellow and then worked into it, introducing a figure i photographed from above in a museum. it’s impossible to reproduce this particular yellow in a photo, so this is the best i could do.
as well, mid-morning i pulled our this creekscape from a stack of 16x20” paintings in my studio and added the blues you see,here, which definitely livened it up.
2019 creekscape, oil on linen, reworked today
fear no more, 24x20” oil& collage on portrait linen
DAY 2: FEAR NO MORE /
fear no more, 24x20” oil & collage on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day
2:51 PM: yesterday’s painting is now titled fear no more, a title i borrowed from a poet friend; i still have to check & make shure she’s ok with that! this is the current state, as i prepare to leave my studio for the day.
fear no more /
fear no more, 24x20” oil on portrait linen on day 1
1:38 PM: after cutting 3 more pieces of 24x20” portrait linen yesterday, i began a new series of 3 paintings titled fear no more. the early stage of this first in the series was inspired by photos i shot in an athenian museum. the visitors to the museum, as viewed from the balcony above, mingle with ancient marble statues of Godesses. i was gazing through a transparent surface with the black dotted patterning you see.
after doing my series of 3 dancing creek pieces, i felt myself longing for my views from above material, which i have a lot of. there’s something in that perspective that lights my fire.
i ran out of juice about 30 minutes ago, so i stopped here. to be continued tomorrow morning.
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