2:33 PM: watercolor 63 was completed a few minutes ago. it’s one of those that has a lot going on, although there’s still plenty of white space for it to breathe. i find the yellows and oranges towards the top the most interesting and perhaps compelling area of the watercolor, with the greens on the upper left serving as a good counterpoint to all the blues.
12:14 PM: yesterday i posted some drawings and paintings made in greece during the ‘60’s-’70’s and sent to me by my son dimitri in athens. i checked out some recent drawings, mostly made during our regular trips to edwards and carbondale, colorado. BV (before the virus) we used to go monthly for a week or so, to work with teachers & students in local schools, introducing our project based educational product. during those trips i would hang out at local coffee shops and make drawings of customers sitting & working on their laptops or engaging in conversation. BELOW LEFT is an example of one of those drawings made at bonfire coffee in carbondale, colorado and, on the RIGHT, a drawing made of a fellow artist in athens, 1978.
what do you notice? right off the bat, the 2020 drawing employs colored pencils. but more importantly, there is a looseness, a painterly stroke, a release from the need to describe in the 2020 drawing. i think they are both strong drawings, but the recent one gives you, the viewer, more space to dream, and is more in alignment with the chinese/japanese 11th-18th c. tradition of calligraphic marks i so admire. click on each one to get a better sense of what i’m talking about.
currently i’m making additions to the watercolor i started working on yesterday; watercolor 63, and will post updates a bit later in the afternoon. the wind, by the way, is currently gusting to 40mph, not unusual for spring in crestone.