4:09 PM: mikela is at school today & attending a dinner this evening, so i don’t have to be back in the house, where i normally would now be, at any special hour.
while commencing work on genesis 1, the first in a new series of paintings for my march ‘23 exhibition at genesis gallery in athens, greece, i unexpectedly re-engaged with mosaic 1, which as you know if you follow this daily blog, i had considered resolved last time i worked on it, october 6th. i kept feeling that some of the greys needed lightening but i wasn’t moved to do anything about it. it’s always helpful to be working on something totally different in order to access that fugitive impulse to mess with a painting i had considered complete.
i introduced pink oil pastel to the areas surrounding the grey rocks. as well, if you click on the image & make it full screen, you will notice some greyish dots throughout the composition, which i feel are a unifying factor .
BELOW: the before (left) and after. you be the judge!
genesis 1, now in it’s very early stages, began with a drawing inspired by the 2020 tokyo olympics celebration, which is now pretty much hidden by the grey dots. they too will slowly dissapear and be replaced by new compositional elements as yet to be discovered. stay tuned my friends!
at work earlier today on stage 1 of genesis 1
