12:39 AM: in just a few months, plein air painting season will have arrived. the weather is usually good enough starting in late april/eraly march to take my paints out to the creek. here’s an example of two i did on march 25, 2017. when i’m working in gouache on paper, i usually have 2-3 surfaces with me, and they tend to get betterwith each successive one. by better, i mean that i get into the flow, and connect with what lies in front of me almost as if it were speaking to me. hard to explain.
the one below on the left was the second of the two. it has more coherence; there is less searching, more certainty in the marks. these little paintings profoundly affect the larger scale work i do in the studio the countdown has begun!
