Restretching an old linen painting other way up
It’s huge! (120cm x 200cm – about 4′ x 6’6″)
Priming it with gesso on 2 easels in my studio
First few layers on New Years Day
A blue grey base coat. Then taped. Then turquoise above, 2 greens below. Some yellow powder pigment dusted over the bottom half. Random diagonal marks with the squeegee edge. Removed tape. More tomorrow.
Good start to 2016 🙂
an unusually late session in my studio
my qualia of turquoise
“Uses of the Term ‘Qualia’
(1) Qualia as phenomenal character. Consider your visual experience as you stare at a bright turquoise color patch in a paint store. There is something it is like for you subjectively to undergo that experience.”
5 canvases
4 @ 100 cm x 80cm
1 @ 100 cm x 120cm
A diptych and a triptych
Or possibly a quintych
A strange starting point today, prompted to look up the word ‘qualia’ by a friends post on facebook, an investigation in paint followed!
Numbers 7 & 8 in my ‘fence ‘ series
Each canvas 80cm /31.5 “
the work is coming faster than I can deal with
4 finished 2 on easels 2 in my head
this one might be done, 80cm sq
this one just started, 80cm sq
2 this morning in my studio
the one with the red stripes now, yesterday still with blue stripes from underpainting
the 2 prep pieces on paper, tape still on
piece on paper, finished
finished piece on panel 60cm sq
balcony shadow 2 weeks ago
studio balcony shadow 2 weeks ago
view through bedroom balcony railings 2 weeks ago
These 3 small works on watercolour paper c. 9 x 12″ are the more successful of the 6 I started yesterday.
This morning I rolled them first. Then scratched some fresh marks and printed over a new layer of paler blue using greaseproof paper. Then a scrape smooth again with a squeegee and a few marks with a knife to suggest the birds
this is the view from my bed on the mezzanine
here is the cat
cropped closeup through the railings and last year’s Christmas tree lights
same view with sunshine
2 pieces of paper with paint and tape
tape off
60cm panel with tape and paint
tape off
a bit later
one of the paper pieces finished
MORE TOMORROW!
trying out little scraps of prayer flags found on the ground in Nepal
prayer flags could be considered litter if they weren’t so beautiful
they are only temporarily fixed to the paintings with hairspray so I can change my mind later
donegallizdoyle 