This is a continuation on the theme of yesterday’s
painting. Here, I covered the page with black gouache and, once dried, drew
onto the dark shape with light Prismacolors, again achieving the eerie, ghostly
quality. It’s a matter of taste as to preferring one version to the other: I like
them both for different reasons. I like the spontaneous, gestural quality of
yesterday’s sketch; today’s has a fuller, deeper, richer, more atmospheric
quality.
I painted this quickly in gouache, letting the paint
soak into the thin, somewhat absorbent paper. I was pleased by its somewhat haunted, ghostly
quality.