watercolor 94-stage 2 10x13”
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11:37 AM: i have to stop early today, so once i found my groove, i did more work on watercolor 94. as it got closer to the time we have to leave for salida, i was overcome by the desire to introduce red marks in the lower half of the watercolor. the rest of the image is rather precise, and the marks on the large centrally situated rock are more interesting and evocative than similar marks in previous watercolors in this series.
i’m out of juice, so we’ll have to wait till tomorrow to see where this goes. right now as i gaze at it, there’s a quality in it’s spareness that i like a lot. is this our beloved crestone creek, or perhaps a sliver of the aegean sea? the fine line i’m walking is between description, abstraction and now, today, dream.
the white spaces in the blue water are inspired by the air bubbles in the creek water, created by the rushing, swirling water flowing down from the high peaks above. however they could be waves in the aegean sea i know so well, and the rocks could be the ones i know and have painted. for example the rocks at piso yialia beach on the island of andros.
this is the first time, in all these 94 watercolors, that something like this has happened. rather than gazing down at the creek, we could be scanning the horizon and feeling the cool aegean breezes…..