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Night Driving

Above is a working image shot in the studio tonight. When I first tried to paint the 76 balls without the number on them, they didn’t really work as a dimensional object. To me, the most successful of those paintings was the one that was not illuminated from within. In my sketchbooks, most of sketches were more like this—a simple form render more like a solid sphere instead of a glowing object in the sky. The mirroring of white sphere in the image above is approximately where the 76 balls were in the various compositions.

I didn’t expect to make such long explanation of the images herein. I got on the computer to write this.

I use to drive around a lot at night to take pictures for my paintings. This is less true and has been for the last few years as my work has increasingly been based off studio still lifes/setups of one form or other. To keep this a short story, I think I miss it. I think I am going to go for a drive before the sun comes up.