watercolor/collage 125 10 x 13”
3:56 PM: thjis is watercolor/collage 125, which happened today while taking short breaks from 2020 creek oil 2. i’ll see once i get it back to the house how it hold up. seems like it might be too strong, but i’m enjoying looking at it! the red stripe at the top left is a piece of a photo i was using last year for my ano kato series paintings, of a student walking down the school hallway, seen from an upper floor.
2:40 PM: i’ve added some strong cobalt blue shapes and green leaf shapes, given more definition to the log, provided the upper middle with more of a background look and whited over some of the underlying yellow. she’s starting to clear her throat in preparation for a song, but it hasn’t yet emerged. time for a break until tomorrows session. i imagine some level of simplification will take place, but right now i don’t anticipate a 180° flip, as i had predicted earlier.
2020 creek oil 2 as it looked at 2:15PM
1:21 PM: and here’s stage 3. grey forms have broken up that yellow, and reddish grey rock-like forms have appeared.
2020 creek oil 2 as it looked moments ago
12:23 PM: i just did some more work on 2020 creek oil 2. so this is stage 2, to be continued in a few moments. the yellow will be reduced and no longer dominate and my guess is that, after a bit more working into it, a 180º flip may occur.
2020 creek oil 2 as it looked moments ago