3:42 PM: but how could i leave my studio without a little collaging, right? so i made some changes to watercolor/collage 141. it needs more, but i’m leaving it like this for now. BELOW are the before & after images. the tree trunk was way too heavy & dark and in general the image needed breaking up. but it ain’t there yet. i’m not attached to a result on this one.
3:12 PM: i’m stopping for the day. taking it slow and easy. this is stage 2. as yet, aside from a few light grey ripples in the water, you can’t yet tell that there’s creek-scape happening simultaneously with the school hallway image. there 2 girls don’t suspect that they’re on the rocks! the blues, greens and pinks dance well together though and less said is always preferable. lets see where this goes tomorrow. i may start another one tomorrow, and move back and forth between the two.
stage 1, watercolor 145 13x10”
2:15 PM: i started work on watercolor 145 this morning. it’s very early stage right now, and looks like this.
i’m combining 2 images: students sitting in a hallway working on their computers, as seen from above, and photos of the creek i shot yesterday on our walk up to the stupa. it will become clearer as i progress; i’m not yet sure where it’s going!
11/13/20 creek photographed on the way up to the stupa, about 4pm
a rare shot of me wearing a tie at a santa fe wedding
7:42 AM: yesterday afternoon around 3:45 we took our walk up to the tashi gomang stupa. it was warm for this time of year. the recent single digit nightime temperatures helped create ice sculptures, bathed in the runoff from the warmer day yesterday. the resulting distribution of whites and darks will find their way into new paintings i’ll be working on, possibly even later this morning.
in reviewing watercolor/collage 144 here at the house last night & this morning, i’m feeling good about it. the solutions i found, collaging those curved pieces of vellum, works as a novel way of indicating rushing, cascading creek water.
BELOW is a detail