four canvases prepped with pink strokes. the one on the bottom is a whited over pre-existing painting.
3:36 PM: this afternoon i preppped 4 canvases, one of which had already been worked on. i used a pinkish color, brighter than what i used 4 days ago on orange creek. whereas on orange creek i worked ro=ight into it while it was still wet, i lay these down on my floor until tomorrow, when they’ll be about 75% dry, and will start working into them then and she where they want to go. the unpainted white shapes will play an important role in the compositions.
woman at work, 25x10 1/4” oil on linen, 1997
12:48 PM: this is one of the 100 or more paintings that arrived from houston a few days ago. the subject is a woman at work at night.
this is a good example of how patterning delights me and has been a part of my work for decades. it harkens back to some of the interiors i painted on the excursions my former mother-in-law niki karagatsi and i made to shops in and near piraeus.
very glad i discovered this one this morning as i was doing some organizing in my studio. i haven’t yet had a chance to look at 90% of the paintings that arrived from houston.