Hard to believe it’s the end of March and this is the first painting of 2012, Number 423. I have been focused on the prints since January so I haven’t spent much time actually painting. It’s been a lot of fun but I needed to paint. I am still planning a giant painting on this roll of canvas I have.The plan has been to go very heavily multilinear on that since I will have space to put a lot of lines.…
This is the beginning stage of the super grid. When you obsessively date and time things (like me) getting page order correct is important. This piece required a level of planning that I had not engaged in before. This last year I have been contemplating larger and larger projects, and not necessarily in literal terms, e.g. larger paintings (all though, yes larger paintings too).
One of the things I did not anticipate when I started this was how much I would notice the ink capacity of the pens. …