
From the easel of Thomas Typewriter: a new painting
From the Easel of Thomas Typewriter, paintings





“The complexity of STILLNESS” by Thomas Typewriter ( gesso and ink on stretched canvas. 30″ x 24″)
I missed last week’s update. A Thanksgiving cold had me laying low. Additionally my heel spurs and hand/wrist pains returned. I suspect the dark colors, especially black, may be an unconscious response to physical pain. This past year has a never ending peeling away of layers of self-identity. If I am like an onion in that I have layers, am I also like an onion in that my layers are finite?
Enough morbidity, onto the paintings.





This has been a much better week at the easel than the previous couple of weeks. I finally figured out how to work with the absorbency of the new canvases. It only took a dozen botched paintings.
The title for the painting comes from how in my art, and also my life, that there never feels like an even progression. Improvement comes from a thousand little tiny ticks. Maybe in the next painting I’ll figure out better ways to use red, but it may take me ten more paintings before I’ll figure out blue.
I managed to finish two paintings last week. Work continues on more.







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