painting the 72x26 stretched canvas with a tinted oil ground this morning
3:17 PM: i’ve been wanting to create a large surface with a tinted ground for some time now. so this morning, i found a stretcher bar that is 72x22”, cut a piece of primed linen & stretched it. then i chose a couple of colors close to what i had been imagining the ground would be and painted the entire surface. tomorrow, it should be dry enough to begin working, although i have no clue what i’ll be doing.
later in the afternoon, i had a talk with mikela, who wqas driving home from the school she was working at in la jara. as we talked, i took one of my reed pens and made this little drawing of some objects on one of my studio tables.
reed pendrawing i made while talking with mikela