glacial blue
1. prototypical color
This is my shower curtain, and another color I am always excited to see. Glacial blue demands light and a translucent material like ice or glass. There is not a Pantone swatch I would choose for it, or a painting. Instead, I admire the work of Sophia Collier. And my shower curtain.
of a watercolor 80% done
2. compositional study
The two important areas of focus in this study are starred in yellow circles. It is a scene of a baptism, teeming with supporters. In the center I note to “add more definition to head and shoulders between (the) hands’ of the person being baptized and the the baptizer. The next note on the right side of the page says “unresolved”. It splits to two circles where a dark is not dark enough, and a suggestion to add a phthalo blue line to blend into the green water in the bottom right corner.
newly translated to English
3. on the shelves
This book is of his 1981 lectures transcribed, and it reads like it. There are plenty of questions and “I don’t know”s.
erasure
4. anatomy of a mark
I do plenty of erasure when I paint. This particular mark reminds me of areas in Francis Bacon’s paintings, which thrills me. He did many of portraits of his friend John Edwards, and in a particular study with a deep pink background the feet of his subject are completely wiped away. My mark is the head of a figure with long hair from behind, but I can see a Bacon beast coming forth through the erasure.
Joe Concra “Clown Car”
always go swimming
6. infj
Beaverkill River. First swim of the year.