at work an hour ago on watercolor 98
3:22 PM: nothing like some herring in dill marinade to get you psyched for a second watercolor! so after two or three fork-fulls on crackers, including of course those fabulous onions, i proceeded to watercolor 98.
it started out woth some leaf shapes, and then came the blues and greens. they were initially intended as a base, to be painted into with some richer, stronger colors. but i fell in love with the simplicity of it as it was. and lo, i stopped!
watercolor 98 10 x 13”
before my mind had a chance to get it’s dirty fingers on it, i stopped.
i believe that reading victoria finlay’s the brilliant history of color in art (see the page below) is in part responsible, as is the comment my friend in nyc made (below)
watercolor 97 10x13”
1:12 PM: quote from an email from a dear friend in nyc yesterday:”Today I have one rude question. Why are you devoted to that long branch- stick thing when it's fucking up your life?”
kinda set me thinking. why, indeed.
so what i just did has no branch-stick things….i like the subtle variety of blues and greens, and where would we be without those bits of yellow and orange?