the drummer, 35x37” oil on linen, day 2 as it looked moments ago, at the end of my painting day today
3:22 PM: each day that passes since my lanap surgery last thursday finds me with less pain and more energy.
so today was spent taking the drummer to her next stage. there’s a lot going on here; perhaps too much. we’ll see in the morning. but there are passages i think work, and constitute a breakthrough of sorts. patterning has always been a core element in my work, as have views from above and the combining of different figures from very different sources. here, in the upper portion, we find the addition of a creekscape, with aspen trunks moving vetically through the composition and backing up to the olympic skateboarder diagonally above the drummer. it’s evolving in spurts, between snacks of mashed avocado on bread stripped of it’s crust, which i can’t yet eat.
the negative spaces in the olympic symbol read from afar as playful green dots, and the newly introduced figure of a viola player standing upright with his instrument seems to observe the play of form and color.
BELOW: the drummer on days 1 & 2
5:12 PM: after a cloudy, cold day with occasional flurries, the sun broke through at sunset.