'BOOK 8 - (smile)' 45x70cms oil on canvas
SAT 14 DECEMBER
The blue was a distraction (see below)
From the pure enjoyment of mixing and placing colours to a tougher painting with the introduction of specifics from the novel, the essence of the novel, locked into the language but with a different presence...
detail
The only hard-edged shapes in the painting, enclosing an emptiness of yellow with a solitary dot, like a bullring at noon...(an observation, not a clue)