moonlight, 32x36” oil & collage on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day today
5:59 PM: moonlight has travelled a long road. yesterday i whited over the most recent version and started a new composition on the still wet surace. i took that a bit further today and will continue tomorrow.
2:16 PM: i decided to white over moonlight and, if you look carefully, you will see the start of a new composition, which will develop further tomorrow.
1:08 PM: this is the current state of the 9x12” 7/20/25 watercolor collage i started yesterday. the dark drawing of the two main figures with their backs to us were drawn using as a quill this 24” bamboo stick dipped in india ink. mikela found it while cleaning out our closets and was ready to toss it.
moonlight, 32x36” post-whiteover
the 24” bamboo stick mikela found, which i used as a quill for drawing with ink
7/20/25 watercolor/collage, 9x12” watercolor, gouache and collage on paper
zoom, 38x13” oil on portrait linen, as she looked moments ago
10:34 AM: first thing this morning, before having my breakfast, iadded alizerin crimson and yellow to the composition.
1:21 PM: this morninig i cut two 13x13” canvases and started work on one of them. this new painting is titled zoom, and is inspired by a photo i shot yesterday during a zoom mikela was on, relating to her work. i held the phone up high, so that we are looking down. i started this one on my painitng table rather than on the wall, and made a few additions once i tacked it to my painting wall. as well, there are elements from the earlier two paintings; in motion and in motion II.
zoom, 38x13” oil on portrait linen on day one
11:01 PM: an interior i painted in 2017 in oil on linen which hangs in my studio. i can’t recall the location of this interior, but i’ll research it and post when i find the answer.
2017 interior, 19.75x6.25” oi on linen
4:25 PM: i made this watercolor/collage today. it may need more work…i’ll see tomorrow.
7/16/25 watercolor/collage, 23x31 cm.
11:47 AM: this morning i made this watercolor/collage. it strated out as a view from above of 3 figures in a museum with a glass floor. it was flipped 360, so if you turn it upside down, you might be able to make out the 3 figures, but probably not since they’ve been painted & collaged over. included in the collage materials are pieces of black ink quill pen drawings, which i make every so often then cut up and save for collaging.
7/15/25 watercolor/collage, 23x31 cm. Canson watercolor paper
this is a plein air watercolor from 2020 made at cottonwood creek and then brought back to my studio, where i turned it into a collage.
polyptych #12 14.5x17” oil on linen mounted on board
1:01 PM: in addition to posting the paintings i’m currently working on, i’ll be posting works from our collection, one a day. this one: polyptych #12, was painted in 2022 and is part of a series inspired by photos of musicians.
ten recent paintings on my south and east studio walls. all but two are 32x36” the one on the upper right is 38 x 32” and on the upper left, 33x23” all are oil on portrait linen. the white borders will of course be gone once they’re stretched.
2:16 PM: today i spent the day tacking 10 as yet unstretched recent canvases to my east and south studio walls. it’s allowing me to see them together for the first time, and evaluate them as a series and individually.
i definitely feel they should be shown together; where & when is as yet unknown.
12:04 PM: this is a 10 1/4x 6 1/4” painting of Mikela at Hockney’s Malibu house, painted in gouache on paper in 1994, a few months after our visit.
mikela at hockney’s malibu house, 1994, 10 1/4 x 6 1/2” gouache on paper
6/5/25 ano kato, 32x36” oil on portrait linen as she looked following today’s tweaks
1:32 PM: our power is out but my laptop is at 97% and my phone is 86%, so i’m ok for now. they’re working on it….we’ll see how long it takes.
i made some minor but significant tweaks to 6/5/25 ano kato just now, and it may be resolved. so i’m going to move on to something new. i think the black outline surrounding the figure has made a big difference, as well as the addition of the watering can and the whiting out of the lower central area.
