jazz 17, 26x72” as it looked at the end of my painting day today
2:31 PM: it’s been raining on & off, and it’s pretty dark, since i prefer painting with natural light, i’m stopping here for the day & will pick up again after our creek walk tomorrow morning, when it’s forecast to be sunny.
as i had imagined, it was exciting to paint on this deep siena ground, especially after so many canvases where the white spaces were critical. the canvas i’m painting on is primed linen, but not my favorite portrait linen. my experience has been that this heavier weave works better on a larger scale.
when we take our creek walk in the morning, i’ll have my usual colored pencils, and the drawing i make will somehow reflect where i’ll be headed on this 26x72” painting. i’m especially familiar with the creek-scape at the location where we usually stop to rest before heading back down, so it feels kind of like painting a dear old friend.
at work moments ago on the new jazz 17, 26 x 72”
1:12 PM: it’s a chilly, cloudy, rainy day today. i began work on the new jazz 17, which i stretched & applied a tinted siena ground to yesterday. i’m working from a few photos i’ve shot over time, during our walks up cottonwood creek. as always, this is a first layer, which will change over time & likely dissapear, other than living sa a ghost image beneath whatever comes next.