4:26 PM: here’s a look back to november 11, 2017, when i was making this gouache on paper of a woman typing on a recent plane flight we had taken. plane flights now seem like ancient history!
watercolor 19
3:23 PM: once again, it’s going to take 24 hours to properly evaluate what happened today with watercolor 19. it has some brilliant passages, if i do say so myself, but i’m not yet sure it hangs together as a composition.my goal was for this one to have a lighter touch, like some of the earlier ones. freshness and playfulness without sacrificing depth and complexity. my favorites so far in this series have pregnant areas of negative space with totally work in the composition, acting like an in-breath, allowing you the viewer to take that all important exhale, while at the same time filling in the “blanks” yourself.
BELOW: the stages thus far
12:33 PM: i wasn’t sure yesterday about watercolor 18, but after evaluating it over at the house, i decided i like it, and it’s now up with the rest on my studio east wall. our trail walk this past saturday was magical, as usual. i didn’t shoot any photos of the creek, rather turning my attention to details we might have missed had it not been for the covid 19 situation, which is giving us more relaxed time to observe everything.
as a result, i stopped and photographed this tree bark with the shadows it cast. it says a lot about the aesthetic currently in my consciousness. nature makes no mistakes, and offers an abundance of lessons if we can receive them.
in keeping with what has become a daily practice, i made a rapid self portrait sketch this morning, which i fine comical. but hey, i’m a comical guy!