watercolor 65 10 x 13”
2:09 PM: two new ones today: watercolor 65 and 66. here’s an appropriate quote from artist shara hughs:
watercolor 66 10 x 13”"
“texture, pattern and perspective is something i like to use to describe a space in ways that maybe don’t always make sense.”
increasingly, the landscape, or, to be exact, the creek-scape, is evolving into exactly that: texture and pattern, generally with a perspective from above looking down. the rocks, with their endless patterns of lichen and mossy growth; the creek water which, at this time of year spills down with increasing force as the remaining winter snows on the peaks melt; last fall’s remaining leaves, and the branches being tossed and dragged with the current.
with matisse and taiga as my two main guides, i increasingly allow the painterly marks to dictate where they want to travel next, and use the creek events to serve as architectural motifs. play is key in this process, along with a known and purposefully forgotten panorama of signposts in the history of art.