It appears as though Bruce is starting to finish some of these paintings. Check out the figure-drawing on the two fish pictures. Beautiful. And what about those water pictures? They’re looking mighty wet! We can see that Bruce has added quite a bit of turpentine to the potatoes to try and get that watercolor effect in the boiling potatoes painting. To get the effect of the steam, he’s used a drybrush with white paint. He’s also added sepia washes to the paintings of the woman to tone down the candy pink backgrounds. Next Bruce plans on adding some punch to the cod jigger and finishing the figures in the piano scene.
The finished paintings will be showing (along with a screening of Vive La Rose) at the Christina Parker Gallery, in conjunction with the Nickel Film Festival and the 15th biannual Sound Symposium.