watercolor/collage 129 at 4pm after a change to the lower left, breaking up that brown shape
watercolor/collage 129 at 2pm
1:58 PM: an interesting day. while going back and forth to my i-mac and with the sound on full, i totally re-worked 2020 watercolor/collage 129. i was watching a 2+ hour long live performance of my son dimitri’s theatrical production of his grandfather karagatsi’s novel, yungerman. he decided, since all theaters are closed at least until the end of the year, to create this live performance, which was watched in real time online by over 1,800 people around the world.'
so back and forth, back and forth, evaluating the play whilst evaluating the progress of the painting. only one small corner remains of yeasterdays version, as you can see in the photos BELOW: left: yesterdays version; only the leaves on the lower right and the passage on the upper right remain pretty much as they were. remain
these two paintings hang on the north wall of hour living room. the one on the left was painted in 2001; the one on the right, a few weeks ago. in 2001 we were taking walks up the creek just as we do now. i would come back to my studio with photos i had shot and drawings and gouache paintings i had made, and translate them into these larger oils on linen. many of those larger oils were painted on a tinted ground, as was this one. that simply means that i went over the white canvas with a tan-ish color, which i left thoroughly dry before starting to paint. this is a technique i learned during my 15 years in greece, and it derives from the byzantine icon painting techniques. the painting on the right was done just a few weeks ago, and benefits from many of the lessons i learned while making all those watercolors.