3:29 PM: we have to leave shortly for our jour fixé outdoor dinner with our german friends. they’re making the main course, which is going to be delicious, and we’re bringing desert.
i did a bit more work on 2020 creek oil 3 today, and, in order to keep the 2 canvases together when i look at them on the wall, added a very makeshift frame using some leftover construction wood. make shift though it is, it makes a huge difference when looking at it. now that i’m looking at it in it’s frame, i can see that, although i like the shift from the spare white on the left and the fully filled in one on the right, i could see doing a bit more to the left, spare side. right now it seems too much like two separate paintings, although there are obvious compositional connections between the two. it may be that the blue green on the top of the canvas on the right needs to extend somewhat to the left….we’ll see tomorrow how it shakes out.
2020 creek oil 3 at the end of my painting day today
this morning before starting to paint, i looked through a folder with iphone photos shot in may of 2016. i’ve posted a few BELOW. some made me want to make a series of paintings based just upon the photos in this folder.
