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One minor resolution that popped back up this weekend (while I was looking through past Creative Endeavors Threads to see just how badly I’ve repeated myself over the years—I’m only half joking when I say this is a not-inconsiderable worry) was to rework some of my smaller paintings onto larger surfaces. Partly down to infrastructural circumstances and (increasingly) partly to personal conviction, I’ve always preferred to work small; my largest canvases have been 20 x 16 inches and I doubt I’d feel very comfortable working on anything larger. The largest thing I’ve ever done was a copy sketch at the DIA—of Gioacchino Assereto’s St. Francis in Ecstasy (c. 1629)—and they provided the paper. Two years ago I wound up doing a larger version of The Huntsman’s Charge (2018) and, though I wasn’t sure it fit together as well as the original, I like it a lot better these days.

I’ve had a couple of potential candidates for “bigging up,” as it were, and happened across one of my favorites, Murder Sprouts (2021), during the aforementioned trip down memory lane. 2021 was still probably my single best year for artwork thus far (I suspect the extra free time and energy matched with the frustration around obnoxious neighbors and construction noise did a number) and even if I never quite recover that mix of possibility and experience, I’ll keep trying until the end. I’m pretty sure I’ve already used it in a header, but I’ll use it again anyway as I love it. Hopefully I can get some traction on this before the end of the year, as my longer-term resolution to phase out standalone physical painting by the end of the decade also plays into this. If I can’t give my larger canvases away, I should probably try and do something with them.

How’s your work going?