Oct 8th, 2026
I debated to myself how much of the "up-close" tile work should be seen at the bottom. It looks almost too forward or splashy. But, without it, if the bottom of the painting had been cut off, the whole piece just became too pedestrian. So long with a splashy base it remains!
Sept 25th, 2026
Un peu plus de progrès...
That ceiling is a bugger.
Sept 9, 2026
Starting to block things in. Some paintings I begin by working the entire surface of the canvas, or at least large sections of it. Usually, that's for more 'imaginative' work.
Others, I proceed more or less left to right, favouring the top over the bottom. This is definitely one of the latter.
Linear technique for a straightforward subject, I suppose.
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I think I've still got a couple paintings of Paris left in me, so here I am trying to draw out the interior of the Petit Palais. Gosh this thing's complicated: lots of double and triple curves, all receding with perspective. Ack.
There's a studio shot, too, with some of the pieces I'm prepping with gesso. One for one more Paris view, and two others, one circular, one rectangular, for two portraits.
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