painting in progress
I was listening to music and determined to do some work - not art but… some things left over from my day job…. Except that I kept feeling this sort of itch. I haven’t felt this in a while - the irresistible call of a brush in my hands and the longing for the feel of the sticky paint slipping through the fibres and sliding onto the canvas. Sure,there have been days when I’ve wanted to paint - but none with such a desperate thirst for it as I had tonight.
It started with a canvas I have used before. It was covered in a messy green paint. I had meant to start a landscape, but I found that I didn’t really want to continue that, and I thought that the best way to cover the overpowering green beta just slap the exact opposite colour onto it so I picked up a large brush and I slathered a bunch of Cadmium red until the canvas was completely covered, and you could still sort of see the dark green peeking through the background because of course the man wasn’t completely thick enough to cover the paint that’s underneath, but I kind of liked it and then I sort of started just swirling the paint around in a circle and then grill and grew until the entire cannabis was red, but I wasn’t done. I have this figure in my head and she’s in. It looks like a kimono. I’m not really sure she’s a blur and I can’t see her face and I don’t know who she is. She’s just there sitting in this semi covered by a green blanket or I think it’s I’m not really sure. Maybe it’s a combination of the two and there are flowers in the background. It looks like … I’m not really sure the image - it’s coming in and out of my mind, I had to put it down because it won’t go away. I’m a little tired now and I think I need to rest, but I hope I continue with the painting and that it comes out clearer in my mind.
And god did I miss the smell of it - the paint - almost as much as I missed the slide of it on the canvas.
- SEPT 27 2025/Sept 28 2025
