I thought I would show a little piece I recently finished. It’s 5″ by 6″ and is on paper. I finished the blocks that make up the background almost a year ago and it has sat on a cabinet behind my painting table ever since. I would periodically pick it up and study it, trying to decipher what it was and where it was going but always put it back in place without doing any more to it. There was a moodiness in its tone that made me wary of how I completed it.
But the other day I finally began to see where it was headed. Simple. let the piece be about the texture and light. let the figure be mere counterpoints to the drama of the environment.
I always like these pieces but am sometimes surprised when others do as well. I consider my little figure paintings to be for my own viewing pleasure so I never have high expectations that others will find anything in them.
Still don’t have a title for this one. I’m considering calling it In My Life, after the great Beatles’ song. In case you’ve forgotten, here’s how it goes:
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