celebration XIV, 32x36” oil & collage on linen, as she looked moments ago
this afternoon, i returned to celebration XIV with a new vigor and enthusiasm, based upon the discoveries i made yesterday with celebration XV. it helped a lot that i was in the mood to add a couple of collaged pieces of quill drawings, made last week expressly for this purpose. had been lying on my painting table since then, and today their relevence announced itself.
earlier this morning, i knew it was time to tape, while it was still relatively cool, so in spite of what my logical mind was squauking about wasting my morning energy on this, i boldly strode 500 feet to the house with my step ladder and rolls of tape. i had been promising mikela for days that i’d tape the perimeter of the screen on the bedroom window, where mosquitoes were finding cracks and slipping in. so up i went on the studio step ladder and in 10 minutes, it was done. there’s NO way they can get into the bedroom now. of course in the process i got bitten a few times, buy hey….