3PM: as has been my habit, i made significant last minue changes to benaki vista just as i was about to walk out the door and head to the house. a few of the biomorphic forms suggestive of the female torso, wanted to become clearer statements proclaiming their identity, as buttocks, breasts, legs…
i listened to their plea, going in with anold dirty washcloth and solvent in a few of the areas in question and clearing the way for strokes of pink. so now, based on those 10 minutes of rubbing out & painting in, it’s a whole new painting! much more enjoyable to gaze at. giving more body to those quasi torsos increased the mystery! an underlying, subtle sexuality has bubbled up, rolled over in the bed and asked for a hug.
it’s always worth hanging in there and persisting.
benaki vista, 78x23”/198x58cm.following last minute changes
12:18: after the changes i made to benaki vista early this morning, i took good doc to the next stage; to be continued tomorrow morning. right now i have some editing to do on mikela’s proposal, which is almost ready to submit.
stage 2: good doc, 16x29” oil on linen
10:24 AM: i didn’t get much sleep last night. the window replacement crew didn’t protect the tv room sufficiently from the dust created by their work yesterday; as a result i inhaled some while watching tv last night & had a suffy nose & sneezing all night.
was all that somehow planned to that i could make these radical changes to benaki vista this morning? could be.
as soon as i finished my breakfast i launched in, working feverishly with the canvas msotly flat on the cement floor and sometimes tacked to the wall, as you see here.
i won’t make many comments other than that i like what happened, and how my calligraphic marks entered the picture, uniting the entire composition with biomorphic shapes sometimes reminiscent of the human anatomy.
benaki vista, 78x23”/198.12x58. 4cm. oil & collage on canvas
BELOW: benaki vista flipped in all 4 directions; which do you prefer?
