The painter Phillip Guston said that when one paints, at first everyone you know is in the studio with you and one by one they drop away until you are left only with the painting. I understand that, the pleasure of serving the process, everything else is temporarily suspended, where will the painting end up etc etc.
I am in the middle of typing up all my notes & stories from Europe. The visual work that I do, it is work but it isn’t. I have been going at a steady clip with my paintings but not because of any specifically set tempo. The visual work becomes a respite from the challenges of other things. Ideally, if nothing else my work offers people a brief cessation from the doomy bleakness of the news.
My paint palettes are now exactly as I want them, incorporating professional grade half pans from several companies.
This piece is 9×12 watercolor & Rembrandt cold press/fin grain 140 lb
Paper Life Painting 
Yoga and painting are good for the troubled world. Glad you’ve procured your desired paint palettes🎨🧘
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Very good. What if no one is in the studio, despite their presence. And we settle because choosing someone there is the task at hand. Locked into it, physically, like a chore, so to speak? Although they are an art in and of themselves, the beauty we seek is in the aether. Which is more real? Doesn’t much matter, I suppose, as art is art no matter the realm we peer into (or attempt to, perhaps). Maybe it, on the surface, is all a form of impressionism
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Beyond your kind visits, I’m coming back because I really like the header, congratulations
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Thank you. Header from ongoing series of mine , single images akin self contained movie (an one image movie)
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