4 PM in spite of the fact that I said I was stopping for the day a few hours ago, I couldn’t help myself & dove back in, making more changes to sparse reflections.
BELOW left: earlier in the day; right: sparse reflections at the end of my painting day
sparse reflections, 78x26” as it looked following todays revisions.
1:17 PM: I very carefully got back to work today on larger pieces. the tendonitis in my shoulder has not yet resolved, but is feeling better enough for me to make my first foray into larger paintings in oil on linen. today I began a re-work of a sound of a flute series painting titled sparse reflections, which I had painted over on November 2, 2019; almost 3 months ago. so far, the new element that has entered the picture following this recent period of smaller works on paper is a boldness not seen in any of the previous sound of a flute series paintings. I stopped when my shoulder let me know I had done enough for the day. normally I would have kept painting for at least another hour, maybe two.
my points of reference as I was working today were: chinese 12th and 13th century landscape paintings; japanese 18th century landscape scrolls and enlargements of photographs i’ve taken at our local creek, where I go to paint plein air, weather permitting.
this long, narrow vertical, scroll-like format continues to bewitch me….there’s just something about it that grabs my kichkes (yiddish for guts), compared with a traditional square-ish or rectangular format. i’ll have to see how my shoulder is feeling tomorrow morning to determine whether or not I can continue with this one.