Days of the Week

Days of the Week, 2013, Acrylic paint on canvas, 40"x 60"

Days of the Week, 2013, Acrylic paint on canvas, 40"x 60"

Doodling is a key inspiration for me. I love using highlighter pens and correction fluid. I idly started making boxes. I believe this is a latent feature of my work -- mostly related to compartmentalizing that I practice every day, as I switch my attention from one matter to the next. So I love drawing boxes. On that day, I first drew five boxes, starting painting them with highlighters then adding streaks of correction fluid, while trying to maintain the segregation with red lines.
Sketch for Days of the Week, 2013, 4" x 6"

Sketch for Days of the Week, 2013, 4" x 6"

I then realized I have 5 boxes and they may well correspond to the workdays of a week. I loved my sketch! However, in transplanting it to the big canvas, I took a more systematic approach to the colors. You decide if I made justice to my own sketch...