I went out to the studio just to have a look,
in tidy day clothes of course
Taped over both paintings and re-glazed the thin sharp gaps with a nearly white mix of paint and sunflower and turps
Removed the tape and added some more red, blue and yellow oil bar to bring up the colour again
They might be finished
I’ve worked on these for a week now, today I added a dribbly top coat of a very pale blue with safflower oil
It needs some more highlights so when this glaze layer is dry I will work over it with random scratches and dashes of white and yellow
Still a bit too specific and representative for my liking, looking for a more impressionistic abstraction
the light through the south facing balcony door is fading fast
dusty drizzly dusk
like rust the grass
turns orange
as the year dims
2 canvases, each 60 cm square
one above the other
a diptych
oil paint with siccative for the first coat
then taped and painted again
then tape removed
followed by oil bars
finally graphite pencil marks
part landscape
part dream
Another walk along the west across the middle and back along the eastern in land facing shore.
A chat on the way, through the hedge, with Neill and Annie clearing their potato patch and Steven digging for razor clams in the low tide sand.
Passed ‘my’ well again. And a quick visit with my neigh our.
Home now with a cup of tea by the range
sky
oil, graphite, spray paint
canvas
80cm square
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oil, graphite, spray paint
canvas
80cm square
donegallizdoyle 