3:50 PM: about an hour ago i hung sparse reflections, one of my sound of a flute series paintings on my newly bare east studio wall. i got the impulse to do some work on it, which was the last thing i expected, especially since my shoulder has yet to heal.
what’s new are the blue-green oil pastel marks running down the central waterfall, and some darker grey surrounding the 3 seated figures. that certainly livened it up but i’ll have to wait until tomorrow morning to determine whether or not these changes to a painting that hasn’t been touched since last march are a good thing or not.the blue-green is definitely an interesting counterpoint to the blue of the sky in the upper portion, as well as activating the pinks on either side of the waterfall.
painting in oil and on this scale is certainly a new sensation. BELOW is a comparative view of the painting before and after the modification.
self portrait photographing david’s pool at his hollywood hills home, 1980, egg tempera on board, collection of david hockney
2:06 PM: yesterday we had friends to dinner on our deck, between thunderstorms. i like the juxtaposition of our friend with some of my plain air oils hanging on the wall of our living room and the mountain peaks reflected in the glass.
this morning we took another trail walk and went about an hour up the trail. i paid special attention to some of the aspen trunks with their beautiful markings.
the one on the lower right is actually from yesterdays walk, it has an interesting relationship to the japanese calligraphy i’ve been looking at over the past decade.
