and finally........im up to date

the blue in the painting is not so intense and the goldfish is warmer
okay after this post ill be pretty much up to date. I had worked this one out on tracing paper and then using carbon paper traced it out onto the canvas.
I did not stick to these lines however, simply using them to guide me towards the general placement of things. This is the first painting where i have used paint very thick and wet. Enjoyed it thoroughly

infact id enjoyed it so much that i immediately started another painting (last)from a photograph taken by me in a village called aioli(sp?) a sleepy little village somewhere in northern karnataka(or is it maharashtra?) which has these really old rock-cut temples...i dont even think it figures on any tourist route
the place is so tiny that you can walk through the entire village within 5 minutes.......the temples comprise more than 50%of the village

-oh yeah, i forgot to mention, ive just returned from an awesome trip along with tj ( this guy basically lives off his bike!) we roamed around quite a bit around the western side of theindian peninsula on our bullets( a breed of motorcycle......u can probably call it the indian version of the harley), did quite a bit of the coast.......think we finished over 2500-3000kms!!


in aioli i had to play host to about 20 odd village kids within the range of 6-12 years, while i waited for tj to reach...... was a totally nervewrecking experience...........bought candy for them and tried(really hard but unsuccessfully) to distribute it in an orderly fashion. The end result was utter chaos.......... had a blast though
im planning a series of paintings based on aioli......hopefully theyll happen soon enough
this is a 20 minnute job thus far, ive basically just slapped on colour and spread it around

the pillars look pretty crooked, but that will get fixed as i refine it further
all i was concerned with here was approximately massing in the lights and darks