090424 Play with me

The galaxy came easy on Saturday morning and filled an empty space that had been there before. The fish came shortly after that, along with the bear and when I added layers of modeling paste on Wednesday the political phallus also fell into place. I had a strong desire to paint tangerines on Sunday while listening to Lhasa’s anywhere on this road.

On Wednesday night I felt a sudden boost of energy and I needed to paint blue. This blue is the second generation of a mixture I did last summer. I kept a small sample and when I ran out of that blue I used it  to re-mix it and to match the new mixture with the original sample. I tried to keep track of the amount of different shades of blues in it and I even wrote some notes down. I was painting intensively for hours to the point I made the vertical lines in modeling paste, they sobered me up and I lost the desire to proceed. The same night I had a dream about me standing in front of an old-fashion and massive iron oven, resting on short iron legs. When I looked inside I didn’t see a fire as one would expect but two or three shafts that would spin very fast and where covered with little iron spikes . I threw a dollar bill into the oven and it got shredded into a million little pieces within a second. I woke up and felt great.

The next night I added an extra layer of paste over  the two big white round forms and evened the grooves in it to achieve a smooth surface, having a calm sea in mind.

I still want to do something about the tangerines and bring more detail into different parts. The white round shapes might become light blue and there is a color in the lower part I am not sure about yet, maybe some dark redish.