watercolor/collage 128 13x20”
2:52 PM: although i’m not done with the new watercolor-collage 127, i started another new one, this time from scratch: watercolor-collage 128. although i’m calling it watercolor-collage 128, for the moment it’s just a watercolor with no collaging. knowing that there’s a good change i’ll add collage down the line gives me a certain freedom. nothing, in other words, is fixed, as it normally is with watercolor. at this point, i’m simply not satisfied unless i work into these new watercolors with collage. it’s the thrill of the unknown and unexpected. somehow, the great american poet wallace stevens was able to attain this using only words. if you take a look, you will see the unknown and unexpected at every turn. here’s a short example from “the emperor of ice cream:”
the new 10x13” watercolor 127 as it looked moments ago
1:12 PM: i took one of the 2020 watercolors series i wasn’t completely satisfied with and began collaging over it, changing it’s name to 2020 watercolor 127. so far, i’m liking wha’s happening. i’m going back and forth with a new one i started, using the larger 13x20” format as well. i’ll post that when it gets further along.
watercolor/collage after todays changes
10:44 AM: after bringing watercolor/collage 126 over to the house & checking it out last night and this morning, i reached the conclusion that it was better turned upside down. i made a few tweaks this morning, which you can see in the image on the RIGHT. an orange mark has broken up the previously too dense mass of that dark shape on the right-middle. so if you compare it with the previous state, BELOW RIGHT, you’ll see how this small adjustment has lightened the entire composition and made it easier for the eye to travel about the surface.
BELOW LEFT: before flipping it 180°, and RIGHT: after; see what i mean?
