1/9/2024 0 Comments Kick it up a notch synonymRight now it’s all about experimenting since I’m used to painting with oils. I’m painting layers that I plan to sand through in different places, so making sure each layer dries before I paint another is important-I think. What surprises me, is that acrylics take longer to dry then I thought they would. In addition to adding to the work-in-progress encaustic diptych above, I played with my new acrylic paints today. We then plow through two Sunday newspapers and often make soup to last the week. It takes the edge off the cold, gray days and gives us a false sense of accomplishment for the weekend. We head to the club in the morning for a workout (I take an hour spin class) and then we linger over breakfast in the café. Handsome Hunk and I have a Sunday ritual during the winter. Speaking of color, we bought groceries yesterday and the colors of the fruit and the bowls handsome hunk chose made me smile, so here’s a little shot of color to liven up a drab weather weekend: I’m thinking still colorful, but more muted. Just yesterday when we were out and about I had started collecting color samples for repainting our main rooms once the weather gets better, so the seed was already planted to repaint. When I walked into our apartment at the end of the evening, I was suddenly struck by how eclectic ours seemed (maybe tacky?). It looked serene, but ultimately it’s not a color I can live with on a daily basis. The party last night was in an elegant putty-colored apartment. I can’t contain myself when it comes to color most of the time. The city sparkled through the windows and the conversation flowed easily- an unexpected pleasure. It was a nice surprise to open our NYTs yesterday and see an invitation to join them and others on their floor for an Earth Hour candlelit evening at their place. The guys often run into each other in the lobby in the early morning when they pick up the papers. She’s one of the featured artists in season 5, “Systems.” Her work is built in layers with clear acrylic separating them: It must be fantastic to see in person.ĭid you remember Earth Hour yesterday? For many years there were only two New York Times subscribers in our building, us and another couple about our age. I’m looking forward to watching the PBS series, Art 21: Art in the Twenty-first Century via Netflix when I have time to savor it. Goldman Sachs has unpleasant connotations today, but Mehretu said that for her it’s about the art and the legacy of painting. It’s one of The New Yorker’s go-on-forever articles that I relish when I’m interested in the subject. Hundreds of precisely defined abstract shapes in saturated colors-small dots and squares, straight and curving lines, larger geometric or free-form shapes ranging from several inches to several feet in length-move across it in an oceanic sweep.” “Eighty feet long by twenty-three feet high, Julie Mehretu’s “Mural” dominates the entrance lobby of Goldman Sachs’s new steel-and-glass office building in lower Manhattan. I’ve admired Julie Mehretu’s work for some time now, but I’m sitting up and taking more notice since I read an article about her, Abstract: The Art World, in the most recent issue of The New Yorker.
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