watercolor 38 following the additional work i did late this afternoon.
6:07 PM: although i was tired; too tired to paint, i made a few changes to watercolor 38 that really fucked it up. the entire foreground, as you can see in the photo on the right, which was spare and empty; a critical part of the composition.
this is what it looks like following my end-of-day work. so i’m not going to destroy it, but it won’t have a place in the series as presented on my 2020 watercolors page. stuff happens.
watercolor 38 13 x 20”
3:12 PM:the completed watercolor 38: on the surface it bears much resemblence to the previous works in this series (except for yesterdays experiments.) upon closer inspection and in gazing at it on the wall with the others, it does have something different. it may be more mature; building on whast i’ve learned thus far, it gives the feel of the creek-scape without specifically defining any of the elements. less detail, more flow. as the saying goes (which i made up this morning) what spills over flows over.
1 PM: stage 1 of watercolor 38, following 2 false starts, which i tossed. i’m continuing work on this one & will post updates in an hour or two. thus far, i’d say there appears to be a new, looser energy, likely as a result of yesterdays 3 experiments (scroll down to 4/30/20 post) as the old saying goes: what spills over flows over. that’s not an old saying; i just made it up, along with everything else! you’ve heard of MSU? = Make Stuff Up University.
11:57 AM: following a delicious breakfast of vermont creamery goat cheese with hot pepper jelly and mikela’s famous hummus on toasted bagel, while perusing my matisse book, i began watercolor 38. i’ll post pics a bit later in the day.
