at work today on watercolor 117
watercolor 117 10 x 13”
4 of the candidates to substitute for the walking sticks we forgot to take this morning
3:42 PM: we walked up the trail this morning. when we started out, the temperature was 46F; colder than it’s been at that hour. when we arrived at the trailhead, we forgot to take our walking sticks with us, so i found some along the trail & we each chose one for the descent.
stretching the 26 x 78” canvas today
yesterday I had prepared 26 x 78” stretcher bars and cut a piece of double primed french linen to fit them. today i stretched the canvas, taking care not to stress my shoulder. i haven’t stretched a canvas since i injured my shoulder many months ago, which was work related. that long narrow shape is tough to pull off first time around, so there are some wrinkles, which i’ll take care of tomorrow.
i had a back and forth with my son dimitri in athens, who started rehearsals today for, we hope, his fall productions at his athens venue: poreia theatre. he showed me the very innovative masks they all wore, which are designed and made in greece. they are transparent, so you can see the other actors mouths move as they say their lines. he doesn’t know yet whether they’ll be allowed to open the theatre though. so it’s a tough situation, and he’s doing his best.
after making some delicious kodiak pancakes with fresh local fruit, i brought one over for mikela to eat, ahd one myself and launched, improbably, into watercolor 117.
chad, in carbondale, let me know that the video piece he’s been working on, of our talk last friday, will be ready for marc and i to look at this weekend and may be ready for public viewing sometime next week, so stay tuned.