Having plenty of enthusiasm for finishing #43, I tried a seemingly elegant way to stabilize my sandstone from parts up and down route 66 and 180, Dismal failure.. so I spent the AM scrubbing off the "transparent" surface, and went for a simple fixative to see what would happen. I prepped some up to demo my transfer method during the long weekend.
Then went hunting reference for paintings... rocks or paper? My hyper kicked in... Below are the rocks in progress and my experiment on paper for a painting... ONE of hundreds I have in mind. NEVER make a dent in 6 days.
I have a beautiful idea for the scene of the four deer I caught on camera last week from the casita. The stripes are the first round of dawn out here. Very often cloudless and there is an amazing transfer of color from dark at the top and gold at the bottom. So that is coming...
Here is a drawing for the big piece I think may wait, as the experiment above is so perfect for another, more intimate but similar piece...
As a reward for all the work... and how I felt I had wasted a really BEAUTIFUL day, I walked across to find the WiFi working like a champ at PDI!
While typing, four more unfinished projects hit me.... back across and hopefully, to the PDVC to get a couple of prints made for my rocks of the ground squirrel and ram....
I can paint when I get home, but I really sort of hate it when my brain goes into overdrive here! I can paint in the dark... the scene from the patio is perfect! The weather is PERFECT...
Does NO ONE want to adopt a permanent Artist In Residence to live and work for them? Somewhere that you can open your windows from June through September???
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Forgot this... Up way too late, nearly counted on tomorrow, the first experiment was successful.
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