Tonight, after my wonderful dinner, coffee and pie, I returned to the Cloister, stripped down, threw on my painting khakis and shirt and canvas shoes and began tackling some of my work. I have five pieces in progress, and tonight I touched on four of them (all of these are "working" titles):
- The Self-Portrait
- The Half-Drunk Bourbon
- Writer's Block
- First Attempt at Redhead in Tropical Setting.
A fifth canvas, "The Philogynist," remains untouched in over a couple weeks, as I am unsure how to proceed. It is the first that I started.
Originally, the plan was to paint a little, make a turkey sandwich, go have a beer at the local dive (a can of PBR) and come back and work, but I never got to the sandwich and never left the Cloister. It was a good few hours that I spent working on my pieces.
Photos to follow next week.
3 comments:
From reading earlier posts, I understand the red head thing. Why the tropics?
So exciting to see the artist's work in progress!
The tropics is just a nod to Gaugin and "The Moon and Sixpence."
Paul Gaugin ended his life and career in Tahiti I think. As does the character in the book.
So did Marlon Brando for that matter, but he doesn't figure into this.
I've never been to the South Seas, and I don't ever think I could exile myself so far away from a city. I love cities.
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