feeling worldly, 34x38” oil & collage on portrait linen, as she looked following today’s tweaks
3:31 PM: i felt feeling worldly needed some livening up, so i added some lighter blues and accentuated the tree branches, and it worked.
before and after today”s tweaks
luck and magic, 32x38” oil on portrait linen as she looked at the end of my painting day today.
4:25 PM: a new figure enters the picture…see ya tomorrow!
luck and magic, 32x38” oil on portrait linen, as she looked moments ago
3:10 PM: i took luck and magic to her next stage of development and may stop here for the day…
luck and magic, 32x38” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at 1pm
1:58 PM: luck and magic has become a horizontal. i scraped it while it was still somewhat wet this morning, turned it sideways so that it’s now 32x38” and began painting into it. i’ll be continuing for another hour or two and will post updates.
these are two self portrait on paper created in 2020 which i discovered while sorting through works on paper for my exhibition this summer on the island of andros, greece.
luck and magic, 38x32” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of day 1
3PM: having completed feeling worldly yesterday, i started a new painting titled luck and magic, 38x32”. i like painitng on this portrait linen, especially when it’s unstretched and tacked to the wall. i’ve stopped deliniating the 38x32” bounds in pencil, as i’ve always done; i like the feeling of an unbounded surface and i know from experience where the borders are. if a fraction of an inch gets cut out when it’s stretched, so what?
this super fine portrait linen, as i’ve said before, takes the paint like magic, thus playing a significant role. i’ll continue work on this one tomorrow, and i’ve tacked a second canvas with the same dimensions right next to it, so i can go back & forth if i’m feeling stuck.
working in watercolor on small pieces for my exhibition in greece this summer kind of loosened me up, which i think shows in this forst day of work on luck and magic.
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.
