2:48 PM: this morning i dove into tokyo olympics 19, the painting i started yesterday. what i’m calling tarlification took place. what i mean by that is that i lay the painting down on a work table and repeatedly went over it with a wash of greys and ochres, followed by vigerous scrapping, until i got it to a point where it was ready for me to draw & paint into it.. i returned to the image i’ve been using in an number of this series, namely the jumping skateboarder with his grey cap, viiolet socks, pink shirt & brown patterned trousers. what i’m half jokingly tarlification refers to my ever developing porcess of removing a lot of what i know and replacing it with what i don’t know.
tokyo olympics 19 as it looked at the end of my painting day
BELOW: tokyo olympics 19 as it looked yesterday (left) and moments ago
