Month: July 2016

In the studio 7/17/16

The painting, Girl in Purple Boots II, is on the easel.  In the background is the recently started Women in Sandals. Girl in Purple Boots II is based on several–three–photos that were taken at an intersection in mid-town Manhattan . It’s 44″ x 60″.  Women in Sandals is also 44″ x 60″. I spent more time drawing…

Preparing canvases

I spent most of the day drawing, getting two new paintings ready.  This afternoon I started stretching canvases.  I plan to stretch 6. I’m a crackerjack canvas stretcher, I’ve done it so often, but even I can learn new tricks.  I used to put the staples on the stretcher edge but I’ve started putting the…

In the studio 7/6/16

I’ve stretched and gessoed a large number of canvases this week.  Soon, my store of stretchers will be exhausted.  I’m concentrating on several dimensions: 36″ x 48″,  40″ x 50″, and 44″ x 60″.  I have 6-10 paintings in each of those dimensions in various states of finish. We celebrated my wife’s birthday yesterday–porterhouse steaks,…