1:08 PM: i completed stretching a new linen artfix canvas & commenced work on 5/30/21 creek oil. it’s starting out as a vertical, and as yet has no collaged elements. but since the canvas is stretched over a piece of 3/4” masonite, i can collage whenever i want. like all it’s predecessors, the joruney ahead will be a circuitous road.
in looking at the two paintings side by side, i realized that, while both canvases are artfix brand quadruple primed linen, the one i just started is not dead white. more like a tan-ish color. that will make any collaged piece of paper that’s white “pop.”
1:16 pm: so the modification i made to 5/9/2021 creek oil is mid-way up on the right. i was looking at a close up i shot last month of a rotting tree stump, which was orange-siena-deep red in color and riffed on that to make the marks you see here in this detail.
a friend is arriving in an hour, and we’ll have dinner together. so i’m planning on stopping early today & will likely start a bit later than usual tomorrow since we’ll have breakfast together before he leaves.
DETAIL of the modification i made today to 5/9/2021 creek oil