anyway, my point was... that i am struggling to allow myself to do the background work (that is unavoidably essential and makes the foreground take form anyway, i.e. IS the painting) because i'm impatient and want to get to the sweeps of light that i watched last night. the 'friday jazz' painting ages ago worked better in the sense that it was raw in a way. i think i even dried the paint with a hair drier, but that painting was tiny. the new ones are all 60x60 so they're too big to hair dry.
but. back to my point. so my fingers are a bit sore for ink work, but i fancy doing some sweeping motion top work. the detail. but i'm currently focused on 5/6 paintings. i've got others kicking about that i'm too uninspired to work on anymore. the moment has passed really. now i need to get to the beach and breath in some of that air. listen to the silent white noise of the sea. i can't wait. i'm going to have a paddle about in it. i'm not sure i even washed my shorts from the last time i went. they have just been assimilated into the horizontal wardrobe on my bathroom floor. i hope the tide is in so i don't have to do the walk of shame for ages after i fall in the sea. ha ha.
yeah. so basically i've done over 5 hours painting today. 5/6 paintings on the go. two ready for inking. i think. tried some small connecting pieces on canvas.
i think this all works much better when i don't talk very much and just summarise. but anyway. i'm so tired. painting music. painting landscape. want to focus on some instrument studies close up with lights. but we'll see what happens. it's hard to get saxophone's to draw because of the nature of them. need one sitting about really in order to breath it in rather than just concentrating on it. because that's not really the spirit of it anyway.
and i ate all this.
