5:15 PM: this afternoon i started my next jacob’s pillow painting: jacob’s pillow 3. it’s an 11x14” watercolor & gouache on bristol paper and is pretty far along. when i get a good start, day 2 is always scary.
mikela just saw it for the first time and said, emphatically, “leave it alone!” and you know she’s always right!
6/5/26 jacob’s pillow, 11x14” watercolor & gouache on bristol as she looked at the end of day 1
jacobs pillow 1, 16x18” oil on portrait linen returned to it’s original state this afternoon
5:33 PM:after adding blues and greens a few hours ago, i went back to the studio before eating dinner and wiped out whatever i did earlier. it has a greenish hue, which i’ll fix tomorrow.
3:46 PM: i took a break a few hours ago and went to the house with mikela. i didn’t expect to come back, especially since a thunderstorm was brewing. but i did, and when i came in, my eye went to jacobs pillow 1, 16x18” oil on linen, which i last worked on may 31st. she was begging for more, so i gave it to her.
jacobs pillow 1, 16x18” oil on portrait linen following todays modifications
12:26 PM: i took 6/3/26 jacobs pillow 2 to the next level today. i’m taking it a little at a time to maintain the delicacy of this 11x14” watercolor/gouache.
6/3/26 jacobs pillow 2, 11x14” watercolor/gouache on bristol
6:54 PM: we were in salida this afternoon and had dinner at moonlight pizza, where i made this colored pencil drawing of a guy at the next table.
the pizza by the way was delicious!
6/2/26 drawing made at moonlight pizza restaurant today
12:34pm: 6/2/26 jacobs pillow 2 will continue tomorrow
6/2/26 jacobs pillow 2, 16x18” on day 1
2:43 PM: today i started the first in my new jacobs pillow series of paintings: 5/31/26 jacobs pillow 1. work will continue tomorrow.
5/31/26 jacobs pillow 1, day 1, 16×18” oil on portrait linen
5/27/26 Met Adventure, 36x38” oil on portrait linenas she looked at the end of my painting day today
2:21 PM: i felt the need to do a bit more on this painting but i stopped just now because i was afraid i was screwing it up. i’ll gaze at it some more and see how i feel tomorrow.
BELOW: yesterday’s version is on the left
Met Adventure, 36x38” oil on portrait linen, as she looked following today’s modifications
1:10 PM: this morning i too Met Adventure to the next level. i simplified the right 3/4 og the composition, moving some goldfish down there, painted over the central figure with the red thermos and made some other changes, adding more white spaces, which brings it more into alignment with the smaller ones i’ve been doing over the past month or so. which i believe improved the overall painting
Met Adventure, 38x36” oil on xtra fine portrait linen, as she looked at the end of day one
2:36 PM: yesterday i stretched a piece of 36x38” portrait linen with no idea what i might paint on it. this afternoon i started Met Adventure, inspired by photos shot from above of visitors to the Metropolitan Museum in nyc as well as other images including, as of now, a seated figure holding a red thermos, green leaves and a bowl of goldfish.
it’s an interesting beginning, and we’ll see where she goes tomorrow.
noon: i just shot a photo of the paintings on the north wall of my studio, and am about to post one of the paintings currently on my east wall.
