watercolor/collage 157 22x15” stage 1 (maybe)
2:45 PM: we’re walking up to the stupa in half an hour, so i’ll be brief. i started (and completed?) watercolor/collage 157 this morning, and worked on it all day until a few minutes ago. once again, the couch delivery team provided great material; this one is form shot i took as they brought the couch pillows up the stairs. i love the vertical format. the bit of map on the upper window collages over the valley view, which was becoming too specific & detracting from the cubist-like geometry of the composition. remember, this is, first and foremost, a painting, consisting of marks in a 2 dimensional surface singing a song and dancing to the music.
my collage table is getting interestinger by the day. there’s no real way to make it “orderly;” bits of cut-up earlier watercolors vie with maps, old paper palettes, tape & glue to retain a visible spot on the table, only to be buried an hour later.