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14/2/2020 0 Comments PaintingA couple months ago, Venus and I started having weekly painting nights at her studio. I haven’t really painted in something like 30 years. I was unsure if I could do it anymore, so I decided to do a self portrait as a starting point. Well, that first painting turned out better than I had hoped! I really could squish paint around in something of a pleasing manner. As I was closing in on finishing the first painting, I started thinking about what I wanted to do for the next one. I decided I wanted to work with some of my old compositional methods of layering items on the canvas, but what? I remembered a linocut I had done years ago, so went and found the block in the garage. I don’t actually have one of the prints, so I did a rubbing. At first, I was sad to see that the composition was so similar to the first painting, but then it dawned on me that this was in fact a pre transition self portrait! It has the body I so desperately wanted, along with my harpoon and “sperm” whale. That sold it. This was the basis for the next painting. I haven’t quite finished it yet, but it’s close. So what to do next? It was time for a bigger canvas. 3 foot square this time. And it’s another self portrait, this one is titled “She Who is Like God.” I am hoping in a couple years to have a body of work for a gallery show.
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