12:52 PM: this morning when i did my firsr glance at gained vision III while having my breakfast, i was bored and disinterested. never a good sign!
so i laid it out on my painting table & went over the whole thing with a diluted white oil paint, then in imagined defiance, i tacked it upside down to my painting wall.
i jumped right in, riffing on a pompeiian fish mosaic that has appeared in earlier paintings. my palette of greens, yellows, siennas & muted blacks gives it, at this stage of development, a wonderful fluidity, helped greatly by the whited over ghost images beneath. it never fails to amaze and delight me, and of course it’s not something you can anticipate as you’re diligently working on what will eventually become a ghost.
you can’t plan to be in your groove, but, as i’ve said many times, when you are, you better recognize it and take advantage!
with hte ever growing mid day heat, i get tired earlier & need to go lie down with my honey. next week the temperatures will climb to the low 90’s; rare but not unheard of for crestone, which if you recall is at 8,000 ft. where we live in the baca grande.
gained vision: this is the detail of the top quarter of the composition
gained vision III, 80x20”/203x51 cm., as it looked at the end of my painting day today