watercolor/collage 138
4:28 PM: towards the end of my day in the studio, emboldened by all the cropping i did, i made a watercolor of a beautiful log i had photographed on our last trail walk. i immediately cut it out of the piece of watercolor paper it had been painted on, leaving a very interesting negative shape in the watercolor paper. i cut the remaining positive shap into small biomorphic pieces and used some of them, in addition to a piece of map, to make this new watercolor/collage 138.
a crop a day keeps the extraneous away!
watercolor/collage 137 after cropping
3:53 pm: an interesting day, indeed! i started out by severely cropping watercolor/collage 137, which i had worked on extensively yesterday. i kept the left side and discarded the right. well, not actually discarded; it still exists, just not as a completed piece.
after cropping it, i placed it on the back side of a piece of linen canvas and placed it ina white frame. the plexi distorts it a bit, but you get the idea. everything i loved about the larger, pre-cropping piece is here: the elegant branch cut from an earlier watercolor, which continues down the composition with lines in watercolor directly on the board; the understated blues and greens; the outlines of rocks in grey watercolor and the zinger on the lower right, sealing the deal.
i had placed 133 & 134 on my easels, temporarily framed by white mats, which cropped the originals. after cropping 137, i realized i like these two way better this way. BELOW you will see how they look.
watercolors 133 and 134 cropped by mats
BELOW: watercolor 133 and 134 before placing the mats over them
9:47 AM: so far we’ve gotten 4 3/4” with more expected later this afternoon, and of course quiote a bit more up on the peaks. this should move the needle at least a little on our drought situation, and hopefully will help with the wildfires currently burning. as i write this the temperature is 15° F and not expected to go above 22° F.
it will be kind of dark in my studio, but i’m hoping to get some work done this afternoon. i’ll update once i have photos of todays process to post.