I painted my last view of BAG’s current studio - later this week the studio will move across the hall and be much bigger - looking forward to the larger space.

I had the studio all to myself this afternoon and evening.  Kinda lazy about doing something ambitious - and maybe in a little big of a dry spell - worked though it today.

I also had an idea for a still life but I was not able to make it work.  I was busy listening to Beethoven’s Symphony #7 and a couple of other classical works while working on this still life - which was inspired by the fabric interplay between the three scarfs - but then I stuck a wine bottle in the middle - and it did not belong there.

I knew the still life was lame as it was (even when I started it) - maybe it was the size of the bottle - I needed to get closer up.  Anyway - as I tossed and turned tonight as I could not sleep - I saw what I needed to do with this still life (see below)

It is more honest and truthful to say - this wine bottle does not belong …. in the picture (itself), so I read the picture into Paint and put a nice big “X” over the bottle and put some writing on my picture.   And now the picture is sorta a “hybrid” of what I saw and felt and what I reflected on afterwards.

It got cold this afternoon - and the studio was chilly - but I enjoyed my time alone.