I leave tonight for a 3 week trip to Asia. I reluctantly packed away all my paints yesterday. Wiped my palette clean. This is a difficult thing to do--I don't mean because it's messy dealing with oil paints, but that too.
Hard to get on a roll and then have to put stuff away. I'm in the middle of an "almost good" painting. Hate to stop now. I worked on 3 different paintings yesterday. I'll call two of them "warm-ups" since they didn't turn out to be anything, but that's okay. Experimented with Liquin and had fun mixing it with the paint to a finger-paint consistency. One painting was a de Kooning experiment, but alas, a FAILURE! Learned that I sometimes need to WAIT between brush strokes. Ended up with yet another muddy mess.
Third painting ended up being "successful". Started "doodling" a very loose figure (Tori seated with legs crossed). Then JW said "that thing (at the bottom) could be a dog." So that's what I made it. Anyway, it's "almost good" except that Tori looks like she's levitating on top of Docious. So I have to futz with that. Probably will screw it up if I try to do it now before my trip. I should leave it, but then I'll have to work on in when the paint is dry and that's not good either.
Maybe I'll just do a LITTLE today before I leave. Can't leave it alone. I hope I don't kill it!
