watercolor 101 stage 1
2:14 PM: in a first for the two of us, mikela took our morning trail walk by herself. i’m resting my groin area, where i have what i hope is just a sprain and not a tear. drag. as a result i arrived early at the studio and was able to start work on a new one: watercolor 101. really, a hundred watercolors completed? of course they vary in terms of how successful each one is, but there are certainly enough to make a good selection for my carbondale show, which opens in just over 5 weeks. tomorrow we’ll pick up some canvasses at my denver gallery also for carbondale.
today i returned to an image i’ve used two or three times over the past few months, from a photo i had shot a while back at the base of the stupa trail. one reason i keep returning to it is the reflections in the creek that day of the tibetan red and blue flags flying above the water. their reflections caused some delicate stripes of light in the creek water, which almost look like monet painted them there. as well, the rocks in that area of the creek have some white bands running across them, which also look they might have been painted there. the green leaves on the right are taken from a different view of another creek.
i don’t have any more juice for working, so i’ll wait till after we’re back, friday morning, and see how i feel about this one.
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