feeling worldly, 32x38” oil & collage on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day today
2:38 PM: today i painted over feeling worldly and created a creekscape, inspired by the numerous printouts of photos i’ve taken over time. so i know each rock as thought it were an old friend, which it is! my energy ran out about half hour ago, so i’m stopping for the day, and i’ll see how i feel about it tomorrow.
feeling worldly, 32x38” oil & collage on portrait linen, as she looked following a rework still in progress
2:02 PM: i’ve been gazing on and off at feeling worldly on my studio wall since i completed it, on february 19. it wasn’t working for me and, as mikela commented a few days ago, it had no center and your eye kept wandering aimlessly.
so i decided today, after whiting over yesterday’s mamiko and erasing it from my blog post, to go back into it. so here’s where it’s at at 2:08pm, with ever darkening skies and high winds.
BELOW: before & after today’s rework
athens cityscape, 20x60” oil on canvas, private collection, athens
this athens cityscpae was one of the works included in my 2010 exhibition at skoufa gallery, kononaki.
sotiris spatharis II, 11x7” watercolor on arches paper
1:23 PM: sotiris spatharis ii, day 3; this is the completed watercolor.
i made some modifications to the february 15 untitled collage. essentially, it’s a new collage, with very little remaining of the original. BELOW: the BEFORE (left) and AFTER
11:50 AM: sotiris spataharis II on day 2
4 PM: this is day 1 of sotiris spatharis II.
sotiris spatharis II, 11x7 1/2” watercolor on arches paper
2:37 PM: i took sotiris spatharis to the next level today, and still may do some more. i used on eof his paintings as inspiration.
sotiris spatharis, 11 1/4 x 7 1/4” watercolor on arches paper, day 1
3:26 PM: in the late ‘60’s in athens, i met the great karaghiozis shadow puppeteer, sotiris spatharis. he took me to his athens workshop and we chatted while he worked on creating new figures. i shot quite a few photos of him, and today i was overwhelmed with the desire to make a painting. it’s a watercolor, 11 1/4x 7 1/4”, which i’ll continue work on tomorrow.
bather at yialia beach, 7 1/4 x 11 1/4” watercolor on arches watercolor paper
11:04 AM: this morning i got an early start and completed my new watercolor, bather at yialia beach, 7 1/4x 11 1/4”
day 1 of bather at yialai beach, 7 1/4x11 1/4” watercolor on arches watercolor paper
today i started a new watercolor for my summer exhibition in andros, of a nude bather on a rock at piso yialia beach on the island of andros. here’s how it looks on day one.
3:17 PM: i have a wonderful new friend, violinist judith aller. she found me online, and knew my Dad, about whom she had wonderful stories; things i never knew. we had a long call yesterday. here she is playin paganini. https://youtu.be/XgUPq5Ald94?si=rISYhdSRLOJ7TVeP
3:43 PM: another watercolor today; this one was inspired by a photo i found from a period when we were leading seminars around the world. we took a group to andros, which i know well, and went up to pithara, a spectacular waterfall located in apikia, about a 10 minute walk from the road, through dense vegetation. the waterfall itself is not visible in the photo i worked from.
from androsguide.gr: “ Only if you walk, smell, bathe, experience this magical place, dismiss the waters and listen to the cicadas you are going to feel what cannot be easily described in words.”
at pithara, 11x7 3/8” watercolor on arches paper, 2/23/25
This young woman, belonging to the Tsaatan tribe in Mongolia, Central Asia, is riding a deer. She is one of 500 people considered the last reindeer herders in Mongolia.
The Dhuka people, also called the Tsaatan, are known as the "people with reindeer" in Mongolian. They are the last group in the world to ride reindeer. There are only a few hundred of them left, and it's believed fewer than 50 families still live this way, though no exact count exists.
