These daily drawings are small. 5 1/2 x 6. I am trawling through photos I have taken, looking for inspiration. I change them from RGB to grayscale so that local colour won't distract me and project them on the wall so that it feels as if I am looking at the scene. I try to forget anything I know. This time I opened a page of Matisse, Le peintre et son modèle: Interier d'atelier to find the first few colours, then I diverged.
Once I was finished I was suddenly uncertain. Was it childish and naïve, or successful? It was fun to draw and as I look again it keeps my interest. I'm falling in love with this way of working, as the rain falls and I have little desire to go anywhere else.
Yesterday I reworked an earlier drawing of the barn table, that was trapped in local colour. I painted over colours with surgical spirit and then began again, trying to find colours that would evoke the scene instead of colours that were correct.
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