celebration VI 14x18” as it looked after a second round of work today
2:22 PM: i’ve been re-working celebration VI all day. i’m coming more from my gut than ever. during the first round, as i mention if you scroll down to my earlier post, i was on the phone with mikela as she was driving to la jara, which allowed me to stay out of my head. just now, we had another chance to talk as she drove to alamosa. and again, that helped me to stay with my gut and out of my plotting, planning brain. elements of creek-scape came in, were painted over, and finally something unexpectedly gorky-esque transpired. this is a study of one of his paintings i made in 2017, which may give you an idea of what i mean.
that said, of course my painting is a figurative abstraction, whereas gorky’s is pure abstraction, but with obvious references to organic forms and veiled sexuality.
study i made in 2017 of a gorky painting
10:39 AM: as the april 5th opening draws closer, i wanted to give you the link to the GREMILLION ON SUNSET site: https://www.horizononsunset.com
one of the gallery spaces at gremillion on sunset
celebration VI 14x18” as it looked following my re-work this morning
12:19 PM: i took one of my 38x36” creek-scapes from my storage room and marvelled at the freedom & fluidity and my use of color. that propted me to do a re-work of celebration VI. as you probably know if you read my posts regularly, for an hour or so every morning, i talk with mikela as she drives to school somewhere in the valley. today it was la jara. it’s a perfect opportunity to get my plotting mind out of the way as i paint, and this morning i painted over most of celebration VI, which was a so-so painting.
the creek-scape, titled purple rock II, has areas where i used oil pastels, which i haven’t used lately. so i took a box of them over to my painting table and used them in my re-work.
BELOW: before & after images of celebration VI
