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ABOVE: 2020 creek oil 2 stages 1, 2 and 3
3 PM: so that’s it for today. i’m not sure this one is going to make it to the finish line….maybe….we’ll see tomorrow, which will be a late studio day beause of our every-other-day trail walk. i think taking out the second orange rock in the lower half of the composition definitely helped, and there are definitely some cool elements. in a way, i like stage 1 best. yet another example of not listening to my gut . it’s always hard to believe that my initial burst of effortless, almost automatic strokes could be enough. but if you look at all 3 stages, stage 1 is the most interesting. so maybe tomorrow i’ll ditch this one and start fresh…
12:30 PM: one thing to remember: mikela is usually (always) right. when she saw creek oil 1 for the first time yesterday, she said “looks complete to me, but why don’t you start another one and keep looking at this one to determine whether or not it needs more work?”
so this morning i did. i found a stack of 16x16” stretched canvases that had been painted on then painted over with white oil paint.
so i started 2020 creek oil 2. at first i was hesitant because i had envisioned starting something new on a fresh, unpainted surface. but after a few strokes, i was hooked. so lets see where, if anywhere, this one goes. after all, i can always toss it, right? that factor gives me a certain invaluable freedom.
lately, i seem to always notice, the day after i paint something new, how much simpler i could have made it.