Quiter day today - went off on my own and away from the group I’m with here in Paris.  Had made my mind up to go over to Eugene Delacroix’s studio - and I spent about 2 hours there - much of it sitting in the garden where the feeling of peace was so strong that I savored it.

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I forgot to put this painting in my last post - so here it is now.  I feel like I got what I wanted and am stuck at the same time - like is should have been a bigger painting.

In a way, I wanted to suggest what I’ve been reading and thinking about and contrast it to what I thought about 20 years ago.  I put in The World View of Paul Cezanne by Jane Roberts and Eugene Delacroix’s Journal as the two books - along with a black sketch book of my own. 

I pulled in plant that I’ve seen in the studio before and and been a part of some of my other paintings over the last several months.

There’s things I like about this work, while feeling, at the same time, it’s too crowded - there’s too much going on here to be be contained in a picture this size.

I hung out at an art opening going on at the studio and then went over to the Postmark Cafe where I wrote this post.

Time to go home, I’m tired, drained.