baca #3, 38x36” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day today
baca#3, 38x36” as she looked at 11:30am today, following this morning’s work
11:35 AM: as is my preference, i’ve been working on this latest painting, baca#3, as it is lying flat on my painting table. i haven’t yet tacked it to the wall for fear of drips, so i photographed it from above, standing on my step ladder.
baca#3, DETAIL, 38x36” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day today
2:47 PM: i worked on the drawing i made yesterday for baca#3, completing the drawing and starting to add oil color. more tomorrow.
baca#2, 38x36” oil on portrait linen
2:02 PM: today i worked on baca#2, for which i had made the drawing yesterday. it’s a bit too busy, so i’ll sit with it and see how i feel about it in the morning.
1/6/26 oil, 24x24” following my latest changes, including some maps collaged
2:30 PM: more work on 1/6/26 oil
1/6/26 oil, 24x24” following this morning’s changes
12:40 PM: this morning i made asome additional changes to 1/6/26 oil, mostly on the right side of the composition..
4:53 PM: towards the end of the day, my eye caught this 24x24” oil/collage painted on 1/6/26. i felt moved to make some changes, which i did. here’s the before and after: now that i’m looking at it, i think it needs more work.
baca#1 38x36” oil on portrait linen as she looked today at the end of my painting day
3:10 PM i added a collaged piece, painted a warm grey over the dark blues at the top and gave the figure on the right legs.
baca #1, 38×36” oil on portrait linen, as she looked this afternoon at 2pm
2 PM: this morning i introduced a few collaged pieces into the composition, as well as a blue border top, bottom and left. i’, currently gazing at it tacked to the wall and contemplating where i may go next.
baca #1, 38x36” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day, at 1pm
BELOW: THE 3 STAGES OF BACA#1 thus far
12:54 PM: i did a bit more on baca #1, before cleaning my brushes and preparing to go with mkela to watch the movie over at the college.
baca #1, 38x36” oil on portrait linen, as she looked moments ago, at 11:30am
11:27 AM: this morning i took baca#1 further. i tacked the unstretched as yet canvas to my east studio wall and i’ll leave it there for a bit and evaluate before resuming painting.
baca #1, 38x36” terracotta pencil & oil on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of day one.
1:31 PM: so on this very cloudy day, with snow predicted tonight and tomorrow, i started work on the new baca #1, which is 38x36” on portrait linen. i’m taking it very slow, working into the drawing in terracotta pencil, which i started yesterday and completed this morning. the figures should all be familiar if you’ve followed my work over the past year or two, and are mostly viewed from above.
