3:23 PM: i had stretched some 16x20” canvases last month & they’ve been sitting on the floor of my east studio wall since then. after working on 2020 creek oil 2 this morning, i was in the mood & had plenty of fresh squeezed oils on my palette, so i grabbed two & got to work. here’s the result so far:
2020 creek oil 3 16x40” oil on 2 16x20” canvases
BELOW 2020 creek oil 2
2020 creek oil 2 26x78” oil on linen
1:19 PM: i resumed work on 2020 creek oil 2 a few hours ago. while having my coffee & before starting to paint i had the impusle to google diebenkorn; can you tell?
sometimes (all the time) you have to let go of your pictures of what something could be and just let it emerge as it will. this of course is old news; it just keeps renewing, making it new news. new news includes everything going on for you in the moment. somehow, it took a diebenkorn to remind me of that today.
the shipwreck sandwich
8:59 AM: yesterday afternoon we drove 60 miles north over poncha pass to salida, where we met with our dear old friend julie, i had a dental appointment, we did some food shopping and we picked up a couple of loaves of my favorite fresh baked honeywheat bread from sweeties. mikela also got me a great hot melted tuna & avocado sandwich they make, called shipwreck. we wore masks most of the time, although corona cases in salida are pretty low. even a short break from being in my studio usually results in a fresh perspective on my new work, so lets see what happends in an hour or so.
BELOW: two shots of sweeties sandwich shop in salida, colorado.
