I wanted a deep, dark blueness to this next painting, like a feeling of the great expanse of a warm summer night surrounding me, my stone, the moon.
The painting in the image below (from my Mrs Pool(e) project) was the substrate for it. It’s always a dilemma whether to paint over older things but that’s what I did in this case, working over several days until the original had all but disappeared.
I paint, draw, wipe, erase. Traces remain. Today is built on yesterday; it changes tomorrow.
I kept coming back to it, not entirely happy but eventually I got there. It’s finished.