I had spent January and February adding additional layers of oil paint to the collage-painting Good Witches of the Between. By the end of February it had reached this point:

I took it off the wall and moved it into the basement portion of my studio to look at now and again while Franz and Petra worked on One Painting Three. By mid-March I was ready to return to this work and begin copying it.

I had in my studio a commercially stretched canvas approximately the same size as the original work on paper -30 inches x 30 inches with a 1 1/2 inch depth and gallery edge. I've grown re-accustomed to working on harder, less 'giving' surfaces of paper and panel over the past few years. However, because of the similarity in size of the surface and the fact the canvas was fresh, never I decided why not use this as an opportunity to work with the oil paint differently than I had been doing. Instead of responding to a pre-existing painted surface I would be working on a clean surface in response to an image on another surface. I would not be making so much a copy as performing a variation on the theme found in the original paper painting-collage.

As I began painting on the canvas what I came to realize was that I was painting in a way similar to how I painted on 'pristine' canvases between 2000-2014. What had changed was the paint, oil instead of acrylic and oil and acrylic paint markers; and the palette -somber instead of shocking. But these are the parameters my painting is currently taking place within and the shift has occurred over the past three years.

I am still working on this painting and I am not ready to stop working on it (for now). The following is documentation for myself of the paintings development to date.