Plaster Relief Experiments

Ok, ok, I know- what does this have to do with anything?      EVERYTHING.     This is a piece of plaster cast from a clay impression I made, and then painted.  I am planning a large body of work in this material, but need to play first to get the techniques down.  The 'baldosas' or tiles will be created with either natural or man-made elements.  You will see how this idea develops (as I do) over the next few months.

 All of the objects used to create the impression were collected from the street and back dirt roads of Muro, Mallorca.

Stay tuned.

Open Box Experiments

Working on the upper terrace today in 80 degrees. Benefit- paint dries quickly; drawback - sunburn. I am posting some soon-to-be underpaintings to get some objectivity. These were created with layers of transparent paint silhouetting open boxes. (See Call for Boxes post).  The first image is early in the process, this is what they look like now:

Hmmm, what to do, what to do?