5:50 PM: after doing more work on watercolor/collage 152, i started watercolor/collage 153, based on photos i shot this morning of our new couch delivery. here you see watercolor/collage 152 as it looked at the end of my painting day.
after working, perhaps too much, on this one, i felt i needed to start something new. this morning our new couches were delivered and i shot photos from above of the delivery team bringing them in, carrying them upstairs and putting them in the living room. i drew on one of those photos for this next watercolor/collage 153. this is stage one of the new painting. it vhas that stark simplicity i always envision maintaining throughout the process. the two guys, at the top, and mikela opening the door, on the left, have been drawn in watercolor with no preliminary drawing.
watercolor/collage 152 at 1pm
1:09 PM: after looking at watercolor/collage 152 last night & this morning, i felt it needed more work. the bare breasted figure wasn’t working and the diagonal log was too prominent, taking over the whole composition. so today i got back to work on it & made numerous revisions, i think for the better.
but i still feel it needs work. i’ll update following the next round.
this morning the 2 new couches we’ve been waiting for arrived in a big semi. one of our friends came & took the old ones to use in his studio & the delivery team took the new ones up the stairs and placed them in our west facing living room. our first impression is 5 out of 5 starts for looks; 4 out of 5 for comfort. they’re a bit too firm, but we’ll get used to them i’m sure. the ones they replaced were 35 years old.
