ano kato 50, 40x45 1/2” at the end of my painting day today
2:20 PM: it got very cloudy & started raining, making it hard to see the colors, and since i prefer not using artificial lighting, i’m stopping here for the day.
i got started on the second paddler,including his yellow paddle, and added some highlights to the shoulders & arm of the paddler in blue. i’m going even slower than usual with this one, painting into it only when i feel the energy surge. while i’m taking breaks, i look at the family photos i found in my loft yesterday, especially this one of my grandma on my father’s side, shot in about 1948. i cropped it from a larger photo, which you also see here. i hadn’t noticed the amazong look on her face until i isolated it. this may be the first time i’m getting what an extraordinary woman she was. as a teen, she escaped from russia just in time to avoid being slaughtered.
11:44 AM: this morning i continued work on ano kato 50, starting the drawing for a second, red headed paddler. i’ll keep working & post when i’m further along.