vid zverkhou, 24x28" oil on portrait linen, as she looked moments ago, following a second round of modifications
2:50 PM: this morning i made changes to vid zverkhou I, which i had last worked on in may. i’ve been gazing at it recently and found, as has happened ercently with other relatvely recent paintings, that it needed to be simplified. it’s a painting i had worked on, then flipped 360, which is why the drummer is upside down. the chinese-like writing was inspired by one of my favorite books on chinese art of the 10th c.
i just now finished making more modifications, painting over the pinks that were surrounding the figure doing a handstand as well as adding two treet and some rocks and here’s the current state.
12:53 PM: i last worked on this painting back in may of this year. the title, vid zverkhou is ukrainian and means from above. i have a zoom friend in kiev with whom i connect twice a week, and at some point i was inspired to title a painting in the ukrainian language. it started out with a number of musicians; today some of them dissapeared, leaving only the drummer, seen upside down on the left, and the guitar player.