Music Sketch 15 & 17

Tonight I finished a painting that I had started four months ago. The initial painting was created as a live music sketch with an audience and we finished the painting without one. Finally there is resolution to the story of this painting whose beginning was tainted by very bad news delivered by a dear love interest only hours before I began it in April. The eve of this painting's creation was marked by jealousy and a bruised ego, and the eve of its completion is of resolution and completeness.


the final painting "A Grey Day in London"

Here is an image of the painting as it was left on April 3rd, 2008 after Music Sketch session #15...


the initial painting

I call it "A Grey Day in London" based on the imagery that Jim's music created in my mind. While the final painting above barely shows the grey that existed in the previous painting beneath - it still peeks through - a reminder of the shame of the past and the completion of the present.

Body Painting

As a canvas a body presents a unique opportunity to work with an existing narrative. There is no way around the fact that it has its own story and its own way of expressing - one cannot do anything but work upon it rather than create a completely new thing.