7:06 PM: towards the end of the day, i realized that i don’t have to wait until the storage space is completed to open the space in my studio to the point where i can get back to work. my big tables had been moved away from my south wall so the crew could cut the door in that wall. now that the door is installed, there was no reason not to move the big tables on wheels back against the wall, and the 2 carts with my oil colors & palette right next to them.
that has returned the space to what it was before work began on construction of the storage room. so tomorrow i should be able to return to work & begin stretching new 26x62” canvases on the newly ordered stretcher bars, which arrived at our P.O.yesterday. bear in mind, the space will look far more open once i’m able to get all the stacked canvases, stretcher bars & rolls of canvas into storage.
2:15 PM: as the crew worked on my storage room, I continued work on 10/31/2021 oil/collage painting. the studio is still very cramped until I can start moving stuff into the new space, hopefully on friday. I say hopefully, because, although they had said it would be completed by thursday, things have shown up, as always happens with a construction project, that are going to have to wait till next week to complete. they won’t be available friday through sunday, so they’ll try to finish up monday, possibly into tuesday.
so here’s where 10/31/2021 oil/collage painting is at now. it’s a very different painting than it was yesterday. vermeer has once again entered the picture, and references to the creek-scape have all but disappeared. much of the 16x20” surface is collaged, using cut up recent drawings, a vermeer brochure and newspapers. pinks, blues and yellows are the dominant colors, with a few accents of red.
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the door to my new storage room, which is 10x20 ft.
11:08 AM: it’s a cloudy day and will likely stay that way. i’m thrilled that the door to my storage addition has been installed. it just needs some framing work. they are planning on completing the project by end of day thursday! so I should be able to start moving stuff in on friday and get back to a regular painting routine by the weekend.
i’m in the midst of collaging onto 10/31/2021 oil/collage painting