2021 creek oil 1 26 x 78” at 2:30pm today
2:34 PM: 2021 creek oil 1 had been turned to the wall, in a corner like a bad boy. i was futzing around trying to decide what to do today (trying is the key word) when i saw some blue oil paint on one of my paper palettes and got a hit. but that was after using the blue oil paint on a crestone conglomerate rock i’ve been painting & varnishing over the past few days, right? so i take one of the badly mangled brushes in my brush container filled with gamsol (a healthier turpentine substitute) and i start making circular shapes on the painting, which i had put on a couple of saw horses with wooden planks for support. where is this going, i wondered.
then i remembered some feedback i got recently from a painter friend about this particular painting. too much brown. too dark and, she didn’t say this, but boring! so i squeezed to titanium/zinc white on my palette, began brushing it over most of the surface except for the bit on the far right, which i think kind of works.
the rest happened in a flow state, which lasted maybe 20-30 minutes. bear in mind, this is after making brownies this morning, which i wandered over to taste every so often. and then it was gone. floated away like a passing cloud. so here’s where it’s at currently. can you tell i was reading a big article in art forum this morning over matcha tea, about philip guston’s canceled and re-scheduled major museum exhibitions? he did creep in a little, wouldn’t you say? but there’s also an influence from a bit of a breakthrough i made a few days ago on 2021 watercolor 8.
8:18 AM:yesterday i came across this photo of myself with Father Evdokimos at Panachrandos Monastery, high up in the mountains of andros, greece. rich with history and once permanatly inhabited by 30-40 monks, it’s now down to a core group of about 5.
more a bit later when i get to my studio.