2:59 PM: we walked up the trail this morning. magnificent, as always. on the way down i tripped on some loose rocks and fell face forward, bracing myself with my palms. could have been a lot worse; just some bruising and light sprain to my wrists. just spoke with my grandson philip in athens, who asked “so how many times have you fallen recently?” he laughed when i responded i’ve lost count. another record breaking hot daqy today, with temperatures predicted yo be in the high 80’s. should be low 70’s this time of year. on tuesday we’ll get snow, with temperatures that night falling to 23F! go figure.
mikela warned me not to paint, and allow my wrists to heal. but i couldn’t restrain myself. i’d been thinking during our walk of some changes i wanted to make to 2020 creek oil 6, which i started yesterday on a 16 x 20” primed linen canvas. BELOW are yesterdays and todays versions. i’ve been looking at an art forum review of a MOMA show of the late joan mitchell, so there may be hints of a kind of hommage in todays work.
this painting is not resolved, so i’ll be doing more work on it tomorrow, as well as beginning to stretch a number of 16 x 20” canvasses which i’ll be using to continue this series.
