stage 1 of macro watercolor 5
5 PM: this is the second day in a row that we haven’t been able to take our afternoon trail walk, due to extreme winds gusting to 45-50 mph. once i completed work on macro watercolor 4 (see my 1:08pm post, BELOW), i started a new one, which will become macro watercolor 5. in this one, i broke away from using watercolor exclusively and began employing crayons, colored pencils and collage. i did collage a few small bits in the previous watercolor, towards the very end.
you can see the areas that are as yet unresolved, like the tan collaged shape middle right, which needs to be broken up. it’s all music….you don’t want too much bass…
domani
macro watercolor 4 at 1pm today
1:08 PM: while looking at this watercolor this morning in the house, mikela had the brilliant idea to turn it on its side. when i came to the studio, i took it from there, added a few collaged pieces and i think it has improved dramatically. wabi sabi!
the faint vertical lines are what i mean by wabi sabi. they can be found in the small collaged magazine cutout in the upper central portion of the composition, BELOW. they literally fly in the face of logic and reason, as art should.
as i have noted many times, mikela has a great eye!