watercolor/collage 129 13x20” at the end of my painting day today
2:23 PM: we’re having guests for a deck dinner in a few hours, so i’m wrapping up for the day to go back & help set the table, etc. as i predicted, i took watercolor/collage 129 to a very different place than where it was in stage 1, BELOW. pieces of maps have appeared, pieces of earlier unsuccessful watercolors. the green bit at the top right is a remnant of some paintings 2 kids made here in my studio a few years ago. just below that are the last remnants of the cube drawings i mentioned yesterday, that mikela had asked me to make for the actionlab 360 educational produce we’ve been developing.
it seems, when i break up an image, it gives permission for my individualized marks to appear more readily and with greater purity. and, as i’ve often said, the distillation of rockness and creekness sings a very different song than a more photographic image. and the further i travel down this path, the more i deeply know myself. just as your features change and ripen over the years, your mark making does as well.
watercolor/collage 129 stage 1
12:48 PM: i started this new watercolor/collage 129, which for the moment is just a watercolor. collaging will commence shortly.
it has some beautiful elements, but in my current state of mind and spirit, it’s asking to become something beyond a branch, water and some rocks.