ATTENTION: Wednesday Painting has been temporarily suspended.
Owing to the looming spectre of Christmas, I will be mostly playing the role of Santa's only-elf-in-the-workshop, making wooden jigsaws for all the children so that they may have broad smiles on their faces come Christmas day.
Normal service will resume on days when I have spare time to get into the studio, and I will also be doing extra remedial painting werk at home.
16 November 2011
9 November 2011
wet-on-wet
[WEDNESDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2011]
Today is Wednesday and I am dressed up in my finest painting outfit. I feel quite fresh considering it was a late night last night. If you had passed by, you would have seen me sketching out a new sea-scape on that large canvas. Then slurping down a night-cap of hot lemon and ginger tea with a tot of rum (poor man's hot whisky toddy?).
This morning I werked on the meeting of 2 contrasting neon colours: the bright green and the orange. It will need more werk when it is dry. Having focussed almost completely on 'Home Sweet Home' for the past 3 sessions, I have put it aside.
This afternoon I re-started werk on the blue neon morse-code. Laying on the paint nice and thick - rich and deep Phthalo Blue - until the canvas won't take any more wet-on-wet paint action.
And then I sit, and I wonder, and I think: what I can do now to fill another hour or so?
There is a large canvas begging to be started, and so I must oblige. Out comes the ink and the brush and to werk I go.
Today is Wednesday and I am dressed up in my finest painting outfit. I feel quite fresh considering it was a late night last night. If you had passed by, you would have seen me sketching out a new sea-scape on that large canvas. Then slurping down a night-cap of hot lemon and ginger tea with a tot of rum (poor man's hot whisky toddy?).
This morning I werked on the meeting of 2 contrasting neon colours: the bright green and the orange. It will need more werk when it is dry. Having focussed almost completely on 'Home Sweet Home' for the past 3 sessions, I have put it aside.
This afternoon I re-started werk on the blue neon morse-code. Laying on the paint nice and thick - rich and deep Phthalo Blue - until the canvas won't take any more wet-on-wet paint action.
And then I sit, and I wonder, and I think: what I can do now to fill another hour or so?
There is a large canvas begging to be started, and so I must oblige. Out comes the ink and the brush and to werk I go.
2 November 2011
ten minus fifteen
[WEDNESDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2011]
I award myself 10 points for being in the studio just after 9am and sanding down the primed canvas.
I then deduct 15 points for straying and checking my email and spending an hour on the computer. Procrastination is a time-sapping thing.
I must get on, I need to leave early today, and my precious few hours are dwindling as a sit here and type.
I made great progress with 'Home Sweet Home', painting intuitively (why can't it always be that way): first green neon and then the deeper, darker reds of the orange neon.
I award myself 10 points for being in the studio just after 9am and sanding down the primed canvas.
I then deduct 15 points for straying and checking my email and spending an hour on the computer. Procrastination is a time-sapping thing.
I must get on, I need to leave early today, and my precious few hours are dwindling as a sit here and type.
I made great progress with 'Home Sweet Home', painting intuitively (why can't it always be that way): first green neon and then the deeper, darker reds of the orange neon.
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