Progress report: the crisis

It is very very rare when you paint a la prima (see? almost all painting terms are italian…), d’un seul jet (or French) a painting… Usually, it takes 3 seances or more to finish it. And there is almost always a moment when your painting goes to hell, when you think “Man! I spoiled it! Damn!”

That means you arrived at the crisis moment… Sometimes, you never get out of it, you have really spoiled your thing and there is nothing else to do but to start again… Here I am, in a crisis (see the reproduction). But I still have some ideas and I still have hope… For instance, I think I’ll paint a lizard, somewhere, on the couch… And, of course, the skin will not keep that greeny color… It`s just a phase… I won`t keep the “moustache” either… It’s already been done and I don’t want to make a comic Mona Lisa. but I still search for a more mysterious smile…