I love painting these rock climbing walls. It’s fun and color ful and makes me think about cool rocks that I’ve had to grab or would want to make for those walls. Someone’s got that job.

Part of what promises to be a new series that will help me with French vocabulary. I have a box of french flashcards that I pull randomly from. Another one I pulled and cannot think of a picture for “nettoyer.” It means to clean.

Thought I’d practice some figures without attention to the background. Painting over geometric canvas. It is huge and I started from the bottom. If there were more room at the top, imagine stick figure gazelles.

I wanted to combine the surreal and the fantasy land since the ocean lacks somewhat for landscape. I thought about what would happen to a drifter if it came ashore. I think it would become a vessel for a rooting tree. I thought its branches would turn to sea water and it would flower fish…

Leaving behind them a trail of rosy carnage, they swim onward leaving bits of hope shining in the dark. I’ve been thinking how to up the sea creatures, when I thought of Michel Gondry’s Tokyo clip where the girl turns into a chair. I liked that aesthetic mid transformation and she can reach through her…

I like it. It helps give depth and color. This painting also kind of shows how much more round shapes are in my head (and my preferable aesthetic for nature.

Today, I am a little blue. I am experimenting a little more with the lying down figures. I realize that I am not used to working with these dimensions. The painting would look better with a little more room under the figure. Oh well. This painting might need something else to make it really work…

At aforementioned Value Village trip, I admired this frame so much. I went out that afternoon and purchased a canvas mounted on sturdy cardboad to fit in it. It does fit, but I don’t know how to hang these things…