Yesterday, I woke up and this was on my easel.

I had the feeling in my guts that it was a nice start but not finished. That was the results of a couple days worth of work. I started with a piece of plywood, coating it with a mixture of gesso, matte medium and shaving cream until it hardened. I spent a day letting myself listen to music and applying colors in oil and acrylic paints; some of the paints were very wet and thinned while the others were dried and I just scratched them on or rubbed the dust into the surface. So that’s what I woke up to.
Approaching the easel, I felt a deep inner connection with something primal, so it seemed natural that I should try to mimic ancient cave paintings.

These were too brilliant and not right in my mind, so I began to ‘age’ them by washing the image with highly diluted white acrylic paint.

Several hours of watching paint dry and several coats of washes later, I felt satisfied with the results. I then slept on this feeling and woke up this morning to check the results. Just to be certain that I was deliberate in my intent, I rested on this piece all day and I feel very confident and pleased that it is indeed finished. Here are the final results.

One feature of this process that is important to note; surface is very important. In order to emphasis this, I will give you a close up detail of that facet of the work.

And yet another detail.

Thank you for viewing.