This project is taking on a life of its own. Good progress today! After a visit to Lawrence Gallery, they have enthusiastically agreed to show my body of work as an exhibit next May along with the opening of the Dutch Exhibit at the Portland Museum.
Also, I have worked out the logistics of the demo in Dayton. To expedite matters I remembered a favorite painting I did several months ago. I decided to use this older painting as a base for the composition of the new demo. My plan is: do 3 paintings, same size, same subject. Leave the first one in a rough lay-in grisaille(shades of gray), take the second one to a middle range of completion, and totally finish the third.
The third one will be framed and on display while I work on the second during the demo. I will have to ship all the paintings ahead along with my paint supplies because of airline restrictions…but I will worry about that later. On to number 3.