It's nice to have a whole day where you can just relax and paint.  Finally finished the first layer of the 36x42 inch painting. It was really fun peeling the tape offf and seeing how what was underneath worked with what I did on the second layer. I think it looks good, but I'm not sure if I want another layer. Started three new paintings today, two of them I actually took pictures of. I'll post the other one I did sometime tommorow.  In other news, I like Stephen King. No, you do? I never would have figured that out! I find that when I'm thinking of something to paint or draw I often think of how what I'm drawing or painting will fit into a narrative. That doesn't neccesarily mean that I go out on a quest to do an illustration. I just want to the viewer to be able to look at a painting done by me and develop a narrative from it, which I guess all paintings do to a certain degree. Wht I like most about Stephen King is how he puts his novels and stories in a larger universe(s). For example, in one of Stephen King's newer books 11/22/63, Jake Epping,m a high school teacher, discovers a portal that goes back to September 9, 1958 at 11:58 a.m. So, with some help, he goes and tries to prevent JFK's assassination. Along the way he runs into a town, called Derry, in Maine. That town has been the host to many supernatural occurences in King's work. Perhaps the most well-known is IT. Well, Jake runs into some familiar people from IT, himself sensing that something had happened. This is just one example of how King interweaves his novels. True, some you could read on their own and you would undestand everything. But when you read another book and there are references to another book, including names, people, places and events, it makes it seem like these novels are not dissparate stories but part of a much larger whole. Wow, kind of got a little to into that, didn't I? Well, I guess what I'm trying to say is that for my thesis I would like to have the same connections, references to not only pop culture, but to the paintings themselves. I think this is the most I've ever written in a single post. I'll update this post tommorow with the one painting, but for now here are some new and semi-new works.