This is from an old photo of my brother standing in a dug-out hole on the beach and kicking up sand and water from it. But it's more than that --- it's an archetypal little boy! Who hasn't seen a little boy doing this, with glee and abandon? I don't remember the actual event because I was too little when the photo was taken, but I remember other, later times when a similar scene was accompanied by me screaming as my brother destroyed my painstaking efforts at a sand castle. That's okay, bro, all is forgiven. :) Anyway, what's interesting about this to me is that it's a departure from any of the prior daily paintings, in its use of muted, pale, pastel colors instead of bright, contrasty colors. For some reason I haven't often revisited this color scheme, though I'd like to. I love the effect of it here because it lends a dreamlike, timeless quality that seems to fit the archetypal image of the eternal boy. (No. 51, 6x8", on Raymar panel, Oct. 15, 2012)
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