Sunset, Thursday, 20 August 2009

Stony Point, Albemarle County, Va. Oil on paper, 16 x 20.

This is only about the third hour of my life as an ophthalmology guinea pig, taking advantage of my natural tendency toward ‘monovision’ by wearing a lens in one eye and nothing in the other ... and this is the first painting I’ve ever done this way.

So if it looks to you that I’m doing weirdly elongated stuff like El Greco or painting like the nearly blind Monet, just let me know ... and I’ll be sure to stay with the prescription.