watercolor 109 10 x 13”
flowering plant seen on our morning walk
12:44 PM: after my doctors evaluation yesterday, it seems safe to walk up the trail again, since my groin pain appears to be a mild strain and shouldn’t be affected by our trail walks. that’s a relief, since it’s our only form of exercise and it’s shocking how quickly you get out of shape! so it was a bit of a push, and i stopped at half an hour, but it felt great to be walking up the trail again.
i started watercolor 109 once i got back to my studio. i tried something different, using my fan brush to create a kind of under-painting and then working on top of that with very diluted watercolors.
the characteristic i love in this one is the freshness and immediacy. nothing has been overworked, and it emerged in just 2 passes. by that i mean that when i work on one of these watercolors, i can only go for a very short period, and then i need to take a break; either because i need to do something else while casting furtive glances to see how what i did reads, or to allow the area i just worked on to dry so that i can paint over it without blotting and bleeding happening.
so the under-painting, done with my fan brush, introduces an element of randomness i strive for. my personality type, according to some systems, is AR, or abstract random. here’s an interesting article about AR: https://child1st.com/blogs/resources/113568135-the-abstract-random-learning-style