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To do two paintings back to back like this is amazing. As any painter knows, there are some real ups and downs you have to go through, and this is definitely an up period. Spent some time sketching by the pool, from photos of Laurens. I like the way his body stretches diagonally across the picture frame. I see it as a stylized painting, very colorful.
February 21, sitting in the airport at LAX waiting for Rio flight: I felt like I was in a sardine can. By the time we got to the hotel in Ipanema I felt terrible. For the next 4 days I was pretty much out of commission, sleeping 20 hours a day, fever, chills, all that. Feeling somewhat better today. Not great, but with enough energy to go to the beach for a little while—and to continue sketching on the Laurens picture.
My intention is to stylize it quite a bit, and that always takes lots of sketches, to work out all the new shapes and make them fit together. I find that if I just keep sketching, sketching, sketching, trying different things, sooner or later everything falls into place.
With this sketch, I've worked things out sufficiently to try a color sketch. The shapes are working together nicely to create a a kind of contained energy. I only needed to do one color sketch to feel good about the color scheme that's lucky! I copied the rough onto another piece of paper in preparation for doing a color study. So far I'm sticking pretty closely to the colors in the color study.
Today I began the painting. The pencil drawing is finally right, so today I painted over every line of the pencil drawing with black paint. When that had dried, I covered the entire thing with a purple wash, my usual procedure. I took advantage of the time it took for things to dry by starting to mix my colors.
Then I started to lay in some of the colors. Also laid in some of the left leg and the background around it. I love the way the shapes and colors of the greenery and the head and shoulder work together. I got lucky there. I also got lucky with the choice of colors for the chest and upper torso. The purple and red really work well there. Did more of the background and the lower half of the body.
I got playful with the penis and made it purple with a bright-red head. A bit of artistic license there. Of course you can never predict where it will be. I need to go in and screw around with it some, see what happens. This acrylic-on-paper painting is called Boy in the Dunes. Today I did finishing touches all over the painting, and I attacked that troublesome lower-left-hand corner.
The cute little fold I had put in the towel wound up being too busy and distracting, so I just straightened it out. That helped a lot. Amazing how often simpler is better.
Then I worked some of the blue-grey into the towel, and added a little diagonal band of green, and things started to work a whole lot better. In fact, I finished the piece and signed it today. My newest model, Laurens, is from Germany.
I met Laurens through one of my old girlfriends, Gina, who now lives in L. Dwayne and Thai Michael, for example. Anyway, Gina e-mailed me some photos of Laurens which I thought looked pretty interesting, so when he got to Hawaii, he came to my studio and I got to meet him and look at his face and body. I had been out driving the previous week, out toward Makapuu, and found a spot I used to go to years ago which is a pretty deserted beach, and I thought it would be a good spot to shoot Laurens.
So on a weekday morning we Laurens, myself, and my surfing buddy Jimmy, who sometimes comes along to assist at outdoors photo shoots drove out to that part of the island and traipsed around until we found a nice spot. We hiked from the road to the beach, which is not far but requires some navigating through thick bushes. I liked the bandanna Laurens was wearing so had him leave that on, and started by taking some shots of him shirtless. Then I had him get naked but leave the bandanna on.
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