5:48 PM: sunset, an hour ago
4:45 PM: from our east facing living room window
watercolor/collage 141 at 3:30 PM.
3:37 PM: just now, watercolor 141 became watercolor/collage 141. i added a few collaged elements, which, if you compare it with the earlier state, BELOW, brings it into alignment with the current state of my aesthetic.
revised watercolor 13x10”
2:08 PM: i continued modifications to the watercolor, which has an unknown number in the series, it now has a kind of festive atmosphere, with what appears to be a frontal view of a horses head in the center. so maybe it’s his birthday? it’s playful and fun to look at, with it’s many patterns and a few realist hints of tree trunks, grasses, leaves and water. i place it temporarily on our bedroom wall and see what it’s like to wake up to. the new owner will doubtless create their own story of what’s going on here. it’s a painterly statement which takes my recent experiments a step further in my ongoing exploration of 2020 mark making. it rests on the work and accomplishments of my predecessors; the artists, living and not, i admire and study. sometimes i imagine what one of them, like 18th century master ike taiga, would say if they could see it. i suspect he’d get it.
i took periodic breaks and started a new one: watercolor 141, 13x20.” in this one, i’m riffing on a photo i shot of a log on a recent trail walk, integrating it with a different view of the creek.
as yet, there’s no collaging. but that may start happening tomorrow, depending on how i feel about what i’ve done when i look at it critically tonight.
and as all this unfolds, what i read in amazon beaming the previous night pervades my consciousness. the mayoruna tribe have an unexpected visitor: loren mcintyre, hwo unexpectedly joins them in their jounet back to the beginning. HIGHLY recommended! you can find it on amazon for under $10.00. we first learned of it about 15 years ago, and last week i felt drawn to re-read it.
stage 1 of watercolor 141, 13x20” watercolor on arches paper, fabricated in france