at 2PM: new ano kato 7 13x20” watercolor and collage on arches watercolor pape
2:00 PM: as we continue to hold our breath, i had a topsy turvey morning, starting a watercolor using the heavier arches aquarelle paper, cut to 13x20” which are the dimensions of most of the 2020 watercolor series.
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BELOW you are looking at my east facing studio wall, with 9 of the recent pieces, including yesterdays new ano kato 6, top row second from left. the rest are part of my 2020 watercolor/collage series. what differentiates the new ano kato series is that i am attempting to integrate my creek inspired watercolors with the ano kat series, characterized by the fact that they are all views from above looking down, with the natural resulting foreshortening.
i started out the morning making a watercolor inspired by photos i shot on our october 2 trail walk. i wasn’t sure where it would go, but after an hour or so, i felt the need to collage a couple of figures viewed from above. they are the same figures i used in yesterdays piece, drawn from photos i shot sometime last year of teenage students eating & drinking at a friend’s house in alamosa. a section of a map and cutout pieces of creek inspired watercolors have been collaged on. the student on the left is pouring water into a glass from a bottle. the girl on the right, wearing a striking flowery dress, is reaching out for a glass. branches next to the creek form the architecture of the composition.
in gazing at this one from 20 feet away right now in my studio, that touch of green collaged to the left of the girl’s dress is a clincher. it’s a great example of why i use collage. it wouldn’t have occurred to me; but as i was working, i spotted that cut out piece of a creek watercolor and knew immediately where it needed to go.
we’ll see what tomorrow brings, and how i feel about what i did today in the morning, at which point we should know who won the election.