1:19 PM: as soon as I complete this post, mikela & I will walk up the trail & see what the conditions are like after the recent snowfall.
last night we had a wonderful time with our dinner guests.as I was giving them a quick overview of what i’m up to in my paintings, I pointed over at il torrente & explained that it’s actually a work in progress, and that my idea is to use what they were looking at as the first layer in a creek inspired painting, which would get a bit more specific in the second layer. actually, I wasn’t yet sure that’s what i’d be doing, but in talking about it, I got re-inspired to take the painting back over to my studio this morning & resume work, beginning to add a new, more rocks & water specific layer. we’ll see where it goes tomorrow, but i’m definitely into it now, in part due to a dinner conversation.
when my mentee, k. was here yesterday, he was struggling to find the right orange for his sky. and today I unexpectedly had a similar experience, searching for the right orange, which you see happening here on todays palette.