luck and magic, 38x32” oil on portrait linen, as she looked at the end of day 1
3PM: having completed feeling worldly yesterday, i started a new painting titled luck and magic, 38x32”. i like painitng on this portrait linen, especially when it’s unstretched and tacked to the wall. i’ve stopped deliniating the 38x32” bounds in pencil, as i’ve always done; i like the feeling of an unbounded surface and i know from experience where the borders are. if a fraction of an inch gets cut out when it’s stretched, so what?
this super fine portrait linen, as i’ve said before, takes the paint like magic, thus playing a significant role. i’ll continue work on this one tomorrow, and i’ve tacked a second canvas with the same dimensions right next to it, so i can go back & forth if i’m feeling stuck.
working in watercolor on small pieces for my exhibition in greece this summer kind of loosened me up, which i think shows in this forst day of work on luck and magic.