Whew! What a marathon day! Not one, but TWO paintings, and both 30 x 20 inch acrylics. A diptych, with each painting going on one side of an armoire for this La Quinta commission--the FINAL paintings!
Tomorrow I UPS the tube of paintings (these were painted unstretched) and then sit back and twiddle my thumbs (not!) until escrow closes on the new-to-us house. Very exciting! We were over there today, taking pictures and meeting the owner, learning about this special house, and I took 53 photos. I'll cobble together a web page with the details about the new studio and the site. Turns out the entire property is surrounded by dedicated open space, county parkland! Privacy and no close neighbors!
The painting today is the left side painting as one-half of the two paintings. Doing these unstretched is an interesting endeavor. I cut the canvas with an extra three inches all around so the framer would have a lot to work with, and then used a piece of foam core to back the canvas. It was held on the foam core with two clips at the top. Then I put the foam core and canvas up on the easel. It's not much different than working on a board-backed canvas. I used an extra couple of larger clips to hold it steady and got to work. I'd marked the canvas with a pencil delineating the edges, and then gesso'd the surface. When I work on canvas with acrylics, I always gesso first, because that gives me a consistency of "tooth" on which to start painting. This painting is already SOLD to Greene and Associates.
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