7:49 PM: this is where new watercolors i bring from the studio to the house await observation and evaluation. this latest one got a very positive response from us both.
after dinner and dish washing i stopped in front of landscscape with pink trees and shot these two details. this painting is part of my sound of a flute series, 78 x 26” oil on linen.
1:59 PM: i didn’t overwork it, but did i do enough? well, when i cast that all important glance, it seems so.
on the right is an 18th c. painting by ike taiga. is it enough? an unfair comparison perhaps, but my point has to do with the evocation rather than the description of a landscape.
watercolor 76 13 x 20”
increasingly, my eye is happier when it has only to deal with 2 or 3 forms; 2 or 3 colors that evoke rather than rather than spell out the landscape.
this one has no white dots in gouache, as do many of the previous ones, indicating bubbly creek water. it is, you might say, playfully austere.
i think it helped that, due to rising daytime temperatures, we’ve switched our trail walks to 6:30 am instead of late afternoon. it was delightfully cool this morning, and much easier to observe and enjoy the landscape. the bird people were singing in tongues. i think that was a factor in the creation of watercolor 76. it works equally well flipped 180.