Did not want to paint from the model today - Decided to do another studio study trying out a couple ideas from last night’s talk on Optical Art - but I didn’t explicitly try to do anything as much as think about those ideas.   After about 2 hours - decided to stop.

In fact, there’s a  get together tonight for a famous blogger that I just found out about via reading my RSS feeds on my handheld, something B.L. Ochman is throwing - decided to spend the rest of the afternoon home and go out in the evening for a little bit.   So here’s my study.

 

I’m liking mixing oil pastels with regular chalk pastels - it’s the first real experimentation I’ve allowed myself in a while and it seemed like it happened by accident last week - but maybe it was meant to be.  

A lot that seems accidental really is not - I’ve accepted that idea in my life.  Some of the best effects in paintings come about accidentally, BTW - I’ve just learnt to leave them in the painting - 10, 20 or 30 years ago … I would have wiped them out and worked over those “accidents”.