6:08 PM: just back from our trail walk. the creek at the trailhead looks different every time we walk the trail. today, our recent near record cold nightime temperatures created striking ice formations, peppered with the still visible orange fall leaves.
the creek at the head of the tashi gomang stupa trail as it looked today at 3:30 PM
watwercolor/collage 142 at the end of my working day
2:04 PM: we’ll be walking up to the stupa at 3, so i’m stopping early. now, if you look at how i started the day, with the watercolor you see below, you may be shocked at where i’m at now. i did say i was feeling it was almost time to cut that watercolor up, but i wasn’t really expecting that would happen so soon after i posted. the only two pieces of what i did earlier that are included are on the upper left and the lower right. i love how spare it is, with just enough marks and colors to create a rich visual/emotional experience. i stand on the shoulders of my predecessors, who have left a trail of breadcrumbs for me. for us. now is then. then is now. from the very first marks our species made, the very first colors we found ways of making.
12:35 PM: i’ve been working on this new watercolor 142 all morning.feel to me like it’s almost time to cut it into pieces and play with them. it’s based on some photos i shot a few years ago of a family hanging out on the grass in alamosa following a public event there
at work just now on watercolor 142
10:48 AM: i feel a sense of renewal today. lets see what i do.
in the mean time, here are a few images from a flash drive i was just reviewing.
top row: 2 new at the time paintings, 2015, my studio in 2015, with an ano kato painting i was working on, which is a view of MOMA
bottom row: ano kato painting hanging in our house and on the right, a 2004 watercolor of andros
