3:28 PM: I asked mikela to stroll over and give me some feedback. as you know, she has a great eye. after looking at it for a while, she expressed her opinion that the new figure I painted in didn’t work. I agreed. it’s like from another story. so out it went, and here’s the current state. we’ll see what happens tomorrow morning. right now a thunderstorm is approaching, with very loud claps of thunder, so i’m going to wrap this up & see if I can get back to the house before it starts pouring.
6/10/2021 creek oil at 3pm
6/10/2021 creek oil, 26x78 in. at noon
12:20 PM: continued modifications to 6/10/2021 creek oil this morning: I took out the upper figure of the girl stooping in the grass. it seemed too much, too confusing.
in her place is a small rendering of a woman viewed from above in the museum of modern art, nyc. the scale is deliberately far smaller than that of the striding male figure below her, and on either side are tree branches. she is enveloped in a neutral, warm grey and there are indications that she’s walking on a floor divided into squares.
aside from the modest information i’ve provided it’s up the you, the viewer to tell the story of what’s going on here.
8:59 AM: as I entered my studio just now, I rummaged through a small backpack I use for plain air drawings and paintings. I found a drawing book and singled out this drawing made last month on June 7, before mosquito season kicked in. i’ll be heading back to make plain air drawings & paintings in a few weeks, once mosquito season had ended. I used to go out during the season wearing my mosquito netting jacket, but it’s too much of a hassle, so i’ll wait.
as soon as I meditate and have some breakfast, i’ll get to work. i’m looking at the work/play I did yesterday on 6/10/2021 creek oil. and it seems to me it needs more.
we’ll see where I go with it in an hour or so; stay tuned!
6/7/2021 creek drawing
6:28 AM sunrise sky this morning
7:10 AM: last night, while watching the stunning tokyo olympics opening ceremony, we could see the full moon risng through the thunder clouds from yesterday night’s storms. we got .39 inches. this is GREAT news, beacuse it puts us within reach of hitting normal amounts of precip by the end of this month.
plus, we’re fortunate to be escaping the effects of the massive heat dome coming to most of the country this week. our temperatures will remain just about normal, in the low ‘80’s, with thunderstorms highly likely each afternoon. this drives temperatures down to the mid ‘60’s, sometimes upper ‘50’s within an hour or two. last night for example, when this moonrise shot was taken, we were already down to 56F.