watercolor 17
2:43 PM: this is where watercolor 17 was at the end of my work day; time for our trail walk! i’ll evuate this afternoon after i take it back to the house & look at it there.
12:37 PM: i’ve started work on watercolor 17. here’s photos of the 1st 2 stages; it’s a vertical this time; switching from horizontal format to vertical re-arranges my brain in a very productive way. specifics of what we observed on our walk yesterday jump into focus more easily, and abstracting/simplifying the landscape seems natural.
imagine using a lever to move/lift a heavy object which suddenly and without notice upends itself, twists front to back and sheds half its weight. how do you feel?
i’ve got the title for the book i keep threatening to write: hubub in the kitchen. the sub-title is still brewing.
more later…
8:23 AM: i’ll be starting a new watercolor, watercolor 17 latertoday. more pics when i get to my studio (which, for those of you who are unfamiliar, is just 500 feet from our house)
yesterday we took our trail walk. some of the photos i’ve shot on those walks over the past week have provided the material for the watercolors i’m making. it all started when i had to suspend work on larger oils due to tendonitis in my right shoulder. that has proven to be a blessing in disguise, since the series of watercolors i’m now engaged in making emerged directly from that injury, which prompted me to work on smaller pieces, much less stressful to my shoulder.
BELOW: photos from yesterdays walk:
