Today has been a productive day for painting.
Two pieces are in progress for two different armchair sittings. One is called, "The Atlas," and the other is called "Artist in Exile." Each piece is painted for a specific woman, whose beautiful image photographed in the armchair will be decoupaged on the canvas. Once these two paintings are completed, I will set up times to have two models/muses sit for them.
Another piece, called "Room in Spain," is almost done as well. I am just letting the paint on the wine bottle label to dry to put a bit of a design on it.
Also, I completed "Shaving (September 1955)," which is a part of the Road Trip 1955 series, and posted "Muse (August 1955)," which was done in August but not posted. I thought I was going to make changes to it but decided against it.
Lastly, this painting in progress. 'American Oasis.' It clearly is a part of the "Road Trip 1955" series but is also being painting for submission either in the Upstate Artist Guild's "Under the Influence" show or my February show as the featured artist.
The theme of the February show is romantic love. Not being much of an expert on that topic, I will paint pieces that will express the love relationship between painter and muse, which at times transcends romantic love, storgic love, platonic love, etc., etc., can be a combination of these types of love, and - depending on the quality of the paint on the canvas - lasts beyond the lives of the painter or the muses.
On top of all this, I finished this small book about Gauguin, called "Paul Gauguin: Images from the South Seas," by Eckhard Hollmann. It is one of a number of books I've read on this 'savage' painter, including "Gauguin: An Erotic Life," and the Gauguin chapters of Mario Vargas Llosas, "The Way to Paradise." Of course, there is "The Moon and Sixpence," by W. Somerset Maugham.
