watercolor 95 stage 1
3:35 PM: i was up at 4:45am. i woke mikela at 5:15 and we walked up the trail this morning. now that summer is taking hold, the earlier the better. it was 52F when we started our walk; a refreshingly cool temperature. i don’t know what we’d do if we lived someplace like houston, where it’s 78F at that time of morning!
my flat files following the september studio flood
i started a 13 x 20” watercolor, but didn’t like where it was going. so i flipped the watercolor paper and started watercolor 95 on the other side. this arches paper is pretty heavy, and there’s no indication i was working on the flip side.
as you can see, this is very early stage, so i’ll go back into it tomorrow morning. right now, i’m beat and have to go back to the house and lie down.
i was on the phone with the lumber company in salida this morning, ordering moulding for the new studio door, which replaced the one destroyed by the flood 9 months ago, back in september; the result of a burst pipe. the moulding will seal the door, which is now vulnerable to wind blown water from the west. there’s still some work to be done on the remaining damage from that flood.
on the LEFT: one of the drawers in my flat files just after the flooding.