Girls-Night-Out

Girls' Night Out It started with this painting I bought at the Salvation Army. It was a good buy. The canvas's image surface was 36 by 48 inches. It appeared to be layered with a number of paintings that the previous artist had abandoned. That's what made it so appealing. I was familiar with this layered concept. Most of my own paintings have been painted over a number of times primarily for economic reasons but nevertheless they could be considered part of a movement I refer to as layer’ism. I was living with my mentor at that time in a small hut. He was a painter and writer, a photographer and an intellectual - an extremely serious fellow. He was my delicious polar counterpart. We were an item in our artist community and very seldom were seen apart from each other.  We painted intensely and passionately far into the night. On one side, my mentor painted on canvases with thick, palette knife strokes, complicated, esoteric and beautiful - part of a series on Rock-Water-Sky. On the othe