watercolor 145 as it looked at the end of my painting day
2:37 PM: this morning i confronted one of those familiar situations: do more work on a very spare and elegantly simple composition, or just leave it alone?
my initial intention yesterday was to integrate creek views with this view from above of students sitting in a school hallway and working on their laptops. today however, i felt differently. i wanted to integrate a different view from above, of visitors to my exhibition at space gallery in denver. once i painted the larger figure wearing flip flops, i surrounded him with creek water, creating a surreal image of a guy seemingly walking on water. the second, smaller figure is holding a gallery info sheet, which he looks at as he walks across the gallery floor. thus, an unlikely meeting of 2 female junior high school students and 2 guys attending a gallery opening was created, juggling space/time in the process.
BELOW: the watercolor as i left it yesterday, and as it looks currently
