watercolor/collage 129 after re-sizing & tweaking
12:52 PM: last night i couldn’t look at watercolor/collage 129 too long before deciding to divide it into two pieces. after tweaking this one, i’m very glad i made that move.
while there are very beautiful passages, there was way too much going on in the larger horizontal version and it was becoming a struggle trying to make it work as a composition. too many layers of collage, too many directions for the confused eye to make sense of. the addition of the small but significant red half moon shape with the white dots on the upper right sealed the deal for me, creating a nice counterpoint for the eye on the upper right.
8:10 AM: about 6am this morning it was just starting to get light when i looked out the bedroom window and saw an animal i couldn’t recognize at first. we’ve never seen horses on our property, much less right outsied the bedroom window, so it took a moment for me to realize that i was looking at not one, but two fine looking horses grazing outside our house!
they remained for about 1/2 hour and then they were gone, as if they had never existed. fortunately, i captured them with my phone. we’ll ask around and try to find out if anyone is missing two horses in our neighborhood. there are stables a few miles away…..
