2020 creek oil 6 at 4pm, after adding the mauves you see
DETAIL at 4pm
4:10 PM: we have to be somewhere for dinner at 5, so this is absolutely the last modification….for today! all the mauves are new.
3:25 PM: i said an hour ago that i was going to start stretching 10 canvases, but the more i looked at 2020 creek oil 6, i couldn’t resist doing a bit more work on it. so here’s how it looks now. what changes do you notice from the 2pm image below? do you think this is an improvement? why?
2020 creek oil 6 at 2pm oil on double primed linen, 16 x 20”
DETAIL of 2020 creek oil 6 at 2 pm
2:16 PM: i wasn’t satisfied with the results of the work i did yesterday on 2020 creek oil 6, so i continued working on it, taking breaks to assemble 10 16 x 20” stretcher bars. i had a couple of boxes of lightweight stretcher bars this size. when the paintings are so small, you really don’t need the heavier weight ones. and i have a fair amount of french double primed artfix portrait linen, which actually works best on a small scale.
i know from experience that once i stretch these 10 canvases, i’ll be able to go from one to the other like a drummer switching from a large drum to a smaller one and on to bones, bodhrán, bendir, cháracas, cymbals….literally playing on these canvases as you would on musical instruments.
so i may stretch some or all of them now, and see tomorrow whether i do more work on this one.