12:07 am: it was snowing this morning and i was in the mood to paint. so i continued working on jazz 13, which i whited over yesterday & started fresh, with traces of the previous version peeking through.
it’s a very different painting now. unfortunately, the color of the blue band at the top was impossible to reproduce. in person, it strongly suggests a distant body of water, broken by a grouping of creekscape rocks & two aspens. i can’t stop looking at what i did today! magic.
for those of you who follow my blog, you will recognize these figures from recent paintings. they are taken from my growing menagerie of actors; people doing things; engaging in a variety of activities, not posing, nor are they props. each one has captured my imagination for a different reason. and i feel i’m on a steep learning curve, introducing them together in a way that emerges when i allow myself to play…in an uncalculated, released fashion.