I'm trying to remember when I began this large, as yet untitled, egg tempera painting; but I cannot. It's been a while since I've worked on it and it's wonderful to be back in pure egg tempera work. While this medium is never forgiving and demands strict discipline and attention it's rewards are unparalleled.

Below is a detail of the work in progress. It'll be months before this one is finished. But painting the river seems to keep me cool during these hot summer days.

Oh, that's me on the left at work in the studio.

And after an all day session on teh really large egg tempera painting I played with a new aluminum piece. I've been experimenting with a series of digital images of just white flowers printed on aluminum. I'm pouring varnish tinted with pigments - some flourescent. And then dripping tinted oil atop the varnish.

I'm loving the drippy wetness! And playing with flourescent pigments as the sun sets makes for some interesting photos!

Quartets. That's how I'm going to organize the Flowsaics.

Just like the little icons on my iPhone.

Perhaps it's the underlying structure I'm feeling. The grid that connects all life? Who can say?

I've begun the iris Flowsaics.

Here's a little detail from number one

On this first day of summer a few new digital polaroids . . .

Summer! Wow summer arrived right on time! I am in love all over again with these cool early mornings. Especially on a day you know will grow into a one of those hot steamy ones that can only end with thunder and lightening.

Yesterday I happened upon some day lilies. With this iPhone polaroid app I get some cool effects. Like the blue in the shadows. The lilies are a mish mash of shape and colors! Can't wait to play and paint with them!

Even with their bursting and bubbling of color and form there exists within the images a subtlety. A kind of ephemeral understanding of their short life span. And within their shapes are a primordial pattern of manifestation which we all feel. What person doesn't know the bloom?

The idea that they arrive in their glorious color from the vast unmanifest realm that we arrived from gives me comfort and joy.

 

Louise Bourgeois

painter and sculptor
born 25 December 1911;
died 31 May 2010





at left:
Lousie Bourgeois by Robert Maplethorpe



Her obit