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Thanks for following along for that last few months. A new video is coming out next Friday.
Well, I never thought that the Big ‘C’ would find me. It did, and it found my partner, Dottie, thanks to my catching it. I believe I was exposed flying up to Minnesota to see my sons. Can’t be sure about that. But I came home with it. We’re doing better and recovering now. I think we’re lucky though. Mostly it was a PITA, a delay in accomplishing the things that are always pressing, but it also gave us a little time to slow down too. Not altogether a bad thing.
Minnesota was lovely. Talk about a lot of green!!! I was able to spend some time with my sons, I didn’t know I was getting sick at that point. Thankfully they seem to have avoided it, my youngest may have a mild version but is also getting better. I thought all the sneezing and burning eyes were due to the smoke from the fires, as seen in the second photo above!
This is the only painting I painted all week! A little study of a place down the road. It’s gouache on cold pressed water color board, 6”x6”.
During this time I’ve been digging into Charles Movalli and his work. Sometimes an artists’ work will stand up and call you out like a beacon on a lighthouse. Sorolla’s work did that to me, Richard Schmid’s work before that. Since then, there’ve not been too many painters whose work has done that to me so deeply. Charles Movalli’s work has. I’ve always loved it, but in 2017 I saw a retrospective at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester. I found out that almost all of the very large, and small paintings in the show, were painted in acrylic! I knew him as an oil painter. I was google eyed over the way he handled the acrylics, as if they were oily and dripping with solvent, like oil paints! He was such a master. That is the reason I’m trying to get a grip on acrylic paint to this day. He motivated me to try. Thank you Charlie!
A new demo will be arriving to all paid subscribers next Friday morning! Sorry for this abbreviated rambling. But the Covid stole some time this week. I’ll be back at it full steam next week.
Here’s some Charlie for y’all.
Stay healthy and keep those brushes wet!
Marc
On a side note I want to add that I purchased the Micheal Harding gesso you referred to. AMAZING! It’s so rich . I even painted in acrylics yesterday and thought of you. My one question is .. would I be able to use this gesso in lieu of titanium white?
Hope you feel better soon. Thanks for sharing the work of Charles Movalli. His name rang a bell so I googled him and found out the he helped Emile Gruppe with the book, Brushwork: A Guide to Expressive Brushwork for Oil Painting. I have a copy of the book and it is very good.