watercolor/collage 153 as it looked at 4pm
watercolor/collage 154 at 4pm
3:48 PM: so i’m calling it a day. i continued to work on both watercolor/collage 153 & 54, going back & forth between the two so as not to get stuck on one or the other or to overwork either of them. so far, so good.
154 is clearly not as far along as 153, and 153 has the edge in terms of that first burst of inventiveness that comes out the first time i’m riffing on a new photo, which in this case is one of the shots i took yesterday of the couch delivery seen from above. that bit of collages blue in 153 is hard to match, as is the freshness of the marks.
watercolor/collage 153 at 2pm
2:23 PM: i did a bit more work on watercolor/collage 153, adding a piece of paper palette with grey marks and a bit of map behind the head of the figure to the left. simultaneously working on watercolor/collage 154 is helping me take it slow with this one.
in my new easy chair, taking it easy. above my right shoulder: the revised watercolor/collage 153
watercolor/collage 153 with new collaged element in blue
12:13 PM: yesterday our new couches were delivered to the house & a close friend took the old ones for use in his studio. there was a matching chair, which haas a new home next to the main door in my studio. tried it out for the first time today, and i love it! i.m able to gaze clear across the 40 foot length of the studio & look at whatever i’ve got sitting on my 2 easels & on the east wall. or, as i’m doing in this photo, i cangaze out my south windows across the valley to sisnaajini (mt. blanca).
above my right shoulder is the newly revised watercolor/collage 153.
watercolor/collage 152 post-cropping this morning
10:58 AM: watercolor/collage 152 was getting way too crowded for me, and it was overworked. so i cropped it and it will remain watercolor/collage 153.
and so now i’m diving back in to watercolor/collage 153. i’ll update a bit later, once i’ve done some work.