Course work: Work continues on Project One, Stage Two with a third preparatory charcoal drawing, this one done from a standing position, in a horizontal format.
Reading and theoretical studies:
Stephanie D’Allesandro and John Elderfield Matisse: Radical Invention 1913-1917
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2010
Pp. 18-30, 32-37
(I selected this book because it is not just a superficial overview, but an in-depth examination of an important period in the painter’s life. Matisse is not a painter I have greatly appreciated, and perhaps a prolonged, detailed review of this sort will help me to overcome that lack. Reading will be fairly slow and deliberate, and other books will be read along with this one, as is my custom.)
Sketchbook work: A short series of highly gestural cloud studies (~2 min each) drawn through a rectangular aperture taped to a window. I picked a very bad day for this experiment, as out almost-invariable late afternoon cumulus buildups failed to appear. I’ll try again.
Time today: 1 hour 36 minutes
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