newly gessoed canvases layed out to dry…. I am still preparing for an exhibition at Shaain Gallery at the end of September.
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Too many trunks. I know why I put them there — the front-to-back thing — but count them. It's a fence, not a filter.
Blue trunks: earned their place, barely. Cool them one more notch and they'll read as gimmick instead of distance.
Field's shouting. Barns aren't answering. Right now it's one loud passage and one quiet one, not a conversation.
Roofs are the only thing holding hierarchy together. If that sequence weren't right, this wouldn't work at all.
Sky's wrong. Too much lavender against that much orange — fighting, not supporting.
Not finished. Might not be close but I feel an end coming.
— Braitman
Water
Left half's a wall — bank and reflection fused into one dark mass. No entry point.
Right half's air. Blue, green, open. Two paintings sharing a canvas, not talking to each other.
Reflection's honest — bank color dropped straight down, that's correct — but honest isn't the same as interesting. It's a mirror, not a variation.
That diagonal shoreline is the only real move here. Everything else is filling space around it.
Water's better than the bank. Water's actually resolved — temperature shift, edge control, restraint. Bank still wants to be finished.
Not sure this needed the dark mass at all. Might be doing less than a lighter bank would.
— Braitman
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