rhyton, 28x24” oil on linen
1:35 PM: RHYTON: i had intended to start a brand new painting this afternoon, but after gazing at self portrait with 2 paintings, 24x28” for a few days, since i created it 2 days ago, i decided that it, too had to go. so i worked over it with the same blue oil pigment i used this morning for the new argolid. confused? thats ok; if & when you encounter them in person, i think you’ll understand.
rhyton is the name for mycenean terracotta libation vessels. this one, in the shape of a bull, is from pseira, in eastern crete, 1500-1200 BC.
RHYTON terracotta drinking vessel in the shape of a bull
ARGOLID 36x38” oil on linen, painted over PT with 2 Paintings just an hour ago
11:59 AM: i was just going to ditch the painted over canvas i was working on today, but then i got into a blu mood, and went over most of it with blue, adding some red and darker blue lines on the edges. i had to shoot it on the table from above, so that the fresh paint wouldn’t run.
something indescribable happens for me when i’m paining over a painting that was mostly in my head, simply moving the brush where it wnats to go. but that previous tortured version had to be in order to burst forth with these unplanned gestures, revealing themselves as they occur. and naming themselves ARGOLID. ARGOLIS, by the way, was the foremost seat of power of the myceneans that dominated greece from around 1500 to 1200 BC
and now on to something new, on a completely fresh, blank quadruple primed linen canvas.
MYCENEAN terra cotta figurine , ca. 1550-1450 BC