Here is the last painting I did at the old place on Esplanade, it was actually finished in the new place down in the south Plateau. A mixture of hope and optimism this painting looks forwards (as does the small dog in the bottom left) not backwards, as emphasized by the clock in the sky. The clock is kind of ugly, it was in the Esplanade apartment upon arrival, and it went in the garbage when I left, you can see in the close up that the numbers are replaced with vegtables.
I used a technique here that may be called very wet on wet...(a play on the classic technique name wet on wet). The idea with 'very wet on wet' is to put one layer of paint down (the sky) wait until it is just a little dry, then bombard it with an almost pure water mixture. It works best with staining pigements like Alzarian Crimson or windsor yellow, because these colours have a n attotude and will spread into their neighbor. I did not intend the effect to be so dramatic (look around the clock where I dropped down the wet bomb) but in the end I kind of like it, the clock looks like it is 'emitting' time in some gelatonous physical form.
22x15" cold press, 2009
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