Let The Gala Begin!

The last couple of weeks I've finished up a collage experiment, framed three pastels and worked a still-life pastel over an old figure drawing. The last was ruined because I forgot to tie up my cloth supply bag in the car and took a corner too quickly. Two days of work down the tubes. It is salvageable, but I still get entirely too angry to work on it.

I am scheduled to speak in May about my figurative work and how it relates to my still-life painting for the Art Alliance of Central PA and to teach 4 classes of Theory of Knowledge (the Art Unit) for my friend Karen down in Fairfax, VA a few weeks later. Feeling like I need to re-evaluate what I bring to the events and where my head is. Given I have a break in commitments now, I decided to get moving on Gala in hopes to have something in progress to share with the VA students!

I rearranged the light to give it more drama and a bit of lurking darkness - something in my life now that I hope will come through in the end - and got started with the under painting. Here is is so far:



I've decided to try harder to keep it loose and will try to stick to my guns with only getting crazy details nearer the end. I'm hoping the large size of the canvas will help! (It's 48" x 60") In looking at my latest art mags, I wonder about the surface more. That and using more medium. Wait and play it by ear.

Time to get to work.