Course work: Completed construction of the grid for the color mixing exercise. Started painting in colors in the squares.
Reading and theoretical studies:
R.L Gregory Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing (3rd Ed)
McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1978
Pp. 81-105
Christopher Butler Modernism: A Very Short Introduction
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010
Pp. 80-102
(One of the hazards of buying books via the internet is unclear description: this book turned out to deal with the entire range of Modernism, not just with visual art. Since the author is a professor of literature, the book was strongly oriented toward his specialty. Nevertheless, the book was worth reading, if for no other reason than that, while it places in proper perspective the curious mixture of failed political systems, discredited psychological notions, and outright mysticism that so influenced modernism, the author does not conclude, as do far too many authors of books of this category, that such ideas have any remaining validity in our era.)
Sketchbook work: A none-too-successful attempt at depicting the view through the door of my office/studio; the vanishing points are widely scattered when I check them, yet to the eye it looks about right.
Time today: 2 hours 23 minutes
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