3:20 PM: stages of watercolor 20 and how making brownies became part of the process:
watercolor 20 at the end of my painting day
BELOW: the 6 stages of watercolor 20
i spent most of the day working on the new watercolor 20. but when i hit a patch where i couldn’t feel where to go next, i decided to make some brownies, which turned out to be the perfect transitional activity. it took my mind off the question of where to go next and allowed me to cast those all important glances at the new watercolor to get some clues about what if anything needed to happen next.
8:06 am: i’ll be going to my studio in a couple of hours and post when i start the new watercolor 20. in the mean time, here is watercolor 19 in our entryway with the morning sun. it’s much more interesting somehow seeing it in the house, which happens a lot. i now consider it resolved.
when i have my studio breakfast, i’ll be reading more about vuillard in the handsome large hard cover 2004 catalogue from his traveling retrospective. i’m feeling more and more kinship with his aesthetic and his approach to mark making, illustrated in the two paintings BELOW: (details on the right)
