celebration X 36x44” oil on linen, as she looked at the end of my painting day today
3:48 PM: this was a long day, but i’m not feeling that tired. those cornbread CBD sleep gummies are helping my sleep. i entered my studio remembering what matisse said about how we find our path as we paint, not beforehand. so i was feeling pretty loose and open to whatever, and whatever is what happened. in the sense that i was able, moreso than ever before, to draw from my familiar figures seen from above and play around with them, overlap them, scrape them; in other words, i was able, on a higher level than i can recall, to PLAY!
she’s lively, sexy and interestingly musical. i’m remembering my belief that music & poetry are the foundational arts.
so we’ll see where she wants to go tomorrow. i may start celebration XI on the same size canvas, which will give me the option of going back and forth between the two, which as you know i love.