tangier imagined, 6x10”
10/12/24 collage, 6 1/4x 8 1/2”
10/15/24 collage, 11 3/4x 6 1/4”
today i reworked 3 recent collages. i spent more time on these than inormally do on a much larger oil painting. i was very much in the flow and able to keep my thinking, scheming brain out of it. to borrow from kamala, they exhude joy; the joy i feel when i’m painting/drawing/collaging.
tangier imagined, 6x10” collage, crayon, ink & pastels on paper, mounted on dark grey board
12:37 PM: before even sitting down to breakfast, began work on the collage i started yesterday, which is now titled tangier imagined. The left portion was fine, but the right half of the composition was way too busy, creating confusion for the eye.
now, with the changes i made this morning and it’s new title, which came to me as i studied what i had done, it feels resolved and is, in all humility, a delight to gaze at!
BELOW: yesterdays stage is on the left
10/20/24 collage, 6×10”, as she looked at the end of my painting day
4:02 PM: today, after handling some logistics around painting sales, i dove into this new collage, 6x10” titiled 10/20/24 collage. it still needs some work, but there’s always tomorrow morning! she’s a rather bold presence at the moment.
7:23 pm: following a rainy, windy stormy day we witnesses these gorgeous skys.
11:34 AM: something was bugging me about this collage and i couldn’t figure out whether it needed more work or something else. finally, i tried turning it and making it a vertical, and that worked instantly!
10/15/24 collage as a verticle
3:32 PM: a few tweaks before leaving the studio…
10/15/24 collage, 16×30 cm.
2:52 PM: i made a new collage on paper today: 10/15/24 collage 16x30 cm. which is a tad larger than the ones i’ve been making the past few weeks. she seems to like being in the company of my recent oils; particularly euphoria, which has a similar vibe.
the cut up quill pen drawing was made a few months ago, with the intention of cutting it up and using it in a collage or collages. the red figure on the lower right is a piece of a drawing made by a 3 year old visiting my studio with his parents a few years back, and has been waiting for this moment to shine ever since then.
35x37”, oil on linen
6:59 PM: one of a series of paintings i made last year which we have in our home.
1. 10x40cm.
2. 7 5/8x15 cm.
3:00 PM: i’ve been sorting through paintings in gouache of our SLV and twin lakes, colorado. here are the 15 i photographed and catalogued. they are all available.
10x40.5 cm. 2. 19.2x39.4 cm. 3. 20.4x25.4 cm
4. 21.5x26.5 cm. 5. 17.5x34.5 cm. 6. 24.5x34.5 cm.
10/12/24 collage, 17x23 cm. mixed media & collage on arches paper
i made a new collage today. rather than searcing for new titles, i decided to simply go with the dat. so this one is 10/12/24 collage.
euphoria, 36x36” oil & collage on linen, in her completed state today
1:53 PM: after a few more tweaks, euphoria, 36x36” is now completed. she is definiely an indicator of a new direction in my work, and we’ll soon see how that plays out in new work.
euphoria, 36x36” oil & collage on linen, as she looked moments ago
2:27 PM: today i began working into the white-over i created yesterday. for now, the 36x36” surface is divided into loosely drawn cubes. since the white oil paint i applied was pretty thick, whatever i did today the brush picked up some white. the two fragments of previous collages i added yesterday now make more sense and are integrating into the new composition.
euphoria, 36x36” oil & collage on linen, as she looked moments ago following my whiteover & collaging
2:32 PM: i was in an odd mood yesterday, resulting in what i believed to be a very good painting.
of course, it was crap, but presented me the opportunity to do one of my favorite things: whiting over a painting. so i screwed one of my flar brushes to the end of a34” stretcher bar and got to it. the reds were still a bit wet from yesterday, so there are areas that are pinkish. and then i lost no time working into it, for starters with collaged elements in some deliberately uneven squares i drew with a charcoal pencil on a pole.
