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kramus · 01-16-2009, 10:58 AM

I don't really have a working title for this. It will be a tree form/figure with another figure relating to it. I have some thoughts about cycles and rhythm which may or may not develop on the canvas. Pretty much a process piece.

The sketch is in the sketchbook which got stolen the night before last. My first art class in years - introductory painting - and my Lady picks me up to go out for dinner afterwards. We park off a main street in Chinatown and have some food. Get back to the car and as she pulls away from the curb I hear an odd sound. Look back and see a window smashed in with bits of glass still dangling around the edges of the door. Note her leather work bag sitting on the seat. Note my art bag missing from the floor between the seats.

Shit.

The bozos who smashed the window reached over her bag to pick up mine. My bag had held note books, sketch books, drawing cases full of instruments, a tape measure, a new painting. Her bag still holds her laptop full of files including a presentation she was delivering the next day. Her passport that her ex accidentally took and had just returned to her. Her data stick. Confidential patient files. Stuff like that, all in a nice leather case. She was sooo relieved. In a way I was too, but in a way it hurts. Because the work in those books is gone. The painting is gone. I have a couple of scans, but scans are not the same.

So you have here:

(1) the sketch of the painting which now exists in the trash somewhere if the bozos dumped my book. Or maybe they are using it as a coaster. Who knows.

(2) the canvas with the sketch transcribed on it.

(3) a weak-ass tonal interpretation of the sketch. Early days on the painting. I really don't have a clear vision of what it will end up like. Hopefully it will be enjoyable to look at.

I'll post the occasional snapshot of the canvas as it progresses - hence w.i.p.

acrylic 30" x 24" - 76cm x 61cm