4:52 PM: the 1:25pm version wasn’t good enough for me, so i painted over it, scraped over that and we’ll see what tomorrow brings! i spent a fair amount of time cleaning & grinding fresh tumeric so i could freeze it and be able to access it easily for my ginger/tumeric drink. tomorrow i’ll do the same with my fresh ginger, & i’ll be all set for at least a month.
1:25 PM: so i did go back into it. the drips it made when i turned it up to photograph it were bugging me. so after going back into it, i photographed it flat on the floor while standing on my step ladder. it was difficult to use the tripod and the speed had to be very slow due to relatively low lighting, but i think i got a decent photo. but i’m not so sure what i did is as good as it was before the intervention, so i may have to leave it till tomorrow & see what if anything i want to do next. i’m working on it flat on 2 saw horses so that my mark making is more gestural than if it were on the easel. i think the latest re-work was too much from my head, trying to re-create what had happened earlier, before the drips occurred. this is important information for those of you who really want to understand my studio process. this illustrates just how delicate it can be.
12:50 PM: i wasn’t happy with yesterdays version, so i went over it and then went back in with grey brown and white. it was very liquid, so when i went to stand it up & photograph it, everything ran. it’s kinda cool looking, but it no longer looks like this photo, and i may have to start over to preserve the calligraphic immediacy of line.
i’ll post more later this afternoon.