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It finally happened. Something happened on the canvas!.
I´ve been hoping that doing a portrait for a collegue, of her little son, would kind of jumpstart my own private painting. But that didn´t happen at all. All the ideas became mental colourless and I felt I had to start from scratch.
I grounded the canvas a lot of times, using a broad spatula, in order to make a very smooth surface wich would be easy to draw on. While sparteling I saw an interesting rough struckture occur, being independent of the normal canvas structure. Some of the random lines gave me the image of a woman standing, with her arms crossed. The image is not my own invention. It was as if I knew this woman or had seen her before. I suddenly remembered I saw that posure from a photo in a newspaper of some actors in a theatre, on a stage waiting for instructions.
The idea was to start the painting with this woman. I´ll call her Yvonne. Like the actors, she´s a woman waiting for me, the artist, to invent a life or at least a sequence on the canvas, wich she will be a part of..

Her position and lines and the posure was given by the random structure of the grounding


I added some colours to seperate her from the background


Finally I added shadows to her appearence to make her three dimensional. Furthermore I´ve placed her in a doorway.
She´s actually entering the painting…waiting on the doorstep. What´s going to happen around her, I don’t know yet. But I feel confident that Yvonne will help me sort things out. It´s her life, after all.