lower portion, gained vision III, after my end of day scrape at 4pm
gained vision III 80x20”/203x51cm., oil on portrait linen as it looked today at the end of my painting day
3:12 PM: after going for a great creek walk thi smorning, i arrived at the studio about 10am and renewed work on gained vision III.
we were hesitant about walking up the trail after reading a ost by a friend who lived furtherout in the valley, about how bad the mosquitoes are this season and how they were biting right through her wool socks. but we flipped a coin, which said we should go. we wore our netted mosquito jackets, and even though there were a lot of them, we didn’t get bitten. so now we’ll be resuming our usual schedule: every other day.
i worked solely on the lower portion of gained vision III, adding the figures of two dancing woman from the cloding ceremony/celebration of the 2020 olympics. this is not the first time i’ve made them part of a composition, and very well may not be the last.
5:38 PM: as usual, seconds before exiting the studio to run into town & shop, I did a scrape over the area i worked on today.
this morning over breakfast, i read this superb quote about matisse, by john elderfield in the catalogue from the 1992 retrospective at MOMA