rain starts play

Unable to complete the paving project in the garden due to rain, (and with an air of "well i was going to get on with some painting anyway") i've been getting on with some painting.

21t August. The questioning ear, like a raised eyebrow. Painting still mainly blue, leaning against the sideboard.

29th August

 

5th September

Parts of this painting are working out ok but i need to keep stepping back to think hard about how to homogenize. Having said in a previous post that i am no longer going to waste time berating myself for continually making orbs and circles in my paintings, i now have a distinct feeling that i am ready to leave them for while; perhaps even, to use an F-word, make some figurative work.

8th September

This poor canvas has been in a barely begun state for months. Yesterday i made a mixture of plaster-filler and p.v.a and troweled it on with my biggest palette knife. I thought today i would be able to sand it, but.....

...imagine my joy when on close examination, i discovered lots of cracking! This is one of my favourite things. It's still damp in the thicker layers. When it's dry, i shall drench it in p.v.a in the most cracked areas to prevent it from falling off. I think this canvas will stay very white-ish. I have another white picture, on board, which i would like to work on but at present it is blocking the fireplace in my bedroom. We don't send kittens up chimneys anymore in this country, whether they want to go up or not.

 
Lino News is good - have enjoyed gouging away at the Inner Ear in the evenings, in front of the telly for the last couple of weeks and am ready to print! I hope the ink hasn't dried up in the tube...