2:29 PM: i just accidentally deleted a text i was preparing to post, in which i talk about the birth of this new watercolor/collage 149. it’s just as well. i was waxing philosophical and talking about the mayoruna’s concept of time and how those 2 pages in amazon beaming, which i’ve been reading and rereading for the past 3 nights, has been infiltrating my consciousness. and the effect that’s been having on my process of painting.
watercolor/collage 149 emerged from a new pile of cut up marks i made a few days ago. i made them with the intention of cutting them into pieces for use in future watercolor/collages. some are present in this new one. it had the appearance of an abstracted creekscape until at the last minute i added the figure: the same school girl i photographed last year, which has appeared and 3 or 4 recent works.
compositionally, this is one of my stronger recent paintings. the dominant colors are blues and pinks, with a few bands of warm grey setting them off. a piece of a map found its way in. my recent study of the works and words of vuillard, as well as 18th c. japanese master of the brush, taiga are evident. if you were here right now, i could walk you through what i mean by that statement. i could make a short video & post it on youTube, but who has time?
that’s it for now. i’m going to pack it up & head for the house, so we can take our walk a bit earlier,and come back down the mountain before the sun sets.