ADDITIONAL PASSES…

I continued building the painting opaquely and kinda sloppily, and then a little bit more directly…

Then, in class on Thursday, I ended up applying a really thin layer of Dorland’s wax to the whole surface with a palette knife. The surface was mostly dry; I applied it carefully and in sections. I did this because I was longing for a different kind of surface to respond to. It felt kinda dead and dull and nasty and my instinct felt the wax might make it shimmier or a little more luscious. It did.

I then began mixing the wax into my pigments, just one at a time as I needed them, and began to paint another series of opaque shapes and lines on the surface, with a small smooth brush. It felt amazing.

My very favorite part of the experience was mixing and applying the yummy warm tertiaries of the "negative" spaces... swoon. That really got me back IN.

I scraped it down the next day and then it sat for a couple of days…

could be done…but I kinda long for the rhythm of those juicy red cherries….

And I also really love the warm orangey-green tertiaries of the clump of green grapes on the middle right side.