11/6/2021 creek oil painting/collage at the end of my painting day today
3:04 PM: here’s 11/6/2021 creek oil painting/collage at the end of my painting day. there’s al ot more going on now, most noticeably perhaps the second log in the foreground, which pushes everything else back in space, giving the eye a point of reference. additional branches have appeared in the upper left portion of the composition as well as in the center. there’s still enough white canvas to allow the painting to breathe and to give the viewer space to imagine. as a whole, when you glance at it from afar, as i’m now doing, it transports you to the creek, and the immediacy of it’s aliveness and movement.
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11/6/2021 creek oil painting/collage as it looked moments ago, as I continue painting
12:39 pm: daylight savings is working for us! we go to sleep at 8 or 8:30, get up around 4 and end up having a much more productive day!
i’ve been working on 11/6/2021 creek oil painting/collage since early this morning, while mikela is working with schools in monte vista, which is a little over an hour away. collage has entered the composition, albeit on a minor scale. lots has happened since yesterday, and above is the current state. on the right: a detail showing one of the collaged pieces, in this case, of a map.
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7:05 AM: yesterday was our first daylight savings walk up the trail. an hour later, it was better than ever; temps were perfect and the light more magical. this is what we call kissing rock, where we stop & kiss on our way down.