9/18/25 watercolor/collage 11.25x14.25” as she looked following the adjustment to the two rocks.
11 AM: this morning, following my meditation, our coffee and our half hour walk up the trail, i addressed the issue of the two creek rocks, which were way too dark and grabbed your attention to the detriment of the composition as a whole.\
after trying to lighten the rocks using watercolor, my solution was to collage greyish paper onto the rocks. i did add a few marks with a black pencil, and left space below the collaged paper for the dark rock shadows to be seen.
as a result i feel much better about this piece and am ready to declare it resolved. mikela, who now joins me every morning in the studio, wholeheartedly agrees. she’s right here working on her educational product, and her presence inspires me. agyter all these years of working separately; she in the house and me 500 feet away, in the studio, we’ve discovered that working in the same space inspires us both. considering tha our house and my studio were both built in the early ‘90’s, this is quite a discovery!
BELOW: before and after this morning’s changes to the two rocks. good decision, eh?
12:09 PM: today, after completing 9/18/25 watercolor/collage, i began sorting through a large pile of works on paper, which had been piled on top of my filing cabinet. amongst them was this 2022 untitled painting in oil on linen, 15x17.5” which i placed in an empty frame i had handy.
untitled, 2022, 15x17.5”, oil on linen