watercolor 92 stage 1
4PM: once again i made the mistake of messing with the watercolor i made yesterday. i don’t like what happened, so, while i din’t destroy it, i put it together with others i feel are questionable and am naming this one i started today watercolor 92. i don’t thing there will be a problem resuming work on it tomorrow, since i don’t consider it resolved, and i think i should be able to continue in the same spirit.
this is a view of the creek i’ve painted four or five times before; i consider it such a beautifully balanced composition and distribution of colors that i don’t seem to tire of it.
5pm sky over the sangre de christo mountains
8am: yesterday we drove to salida, where i had my crown installed in the upper right implant. it took 40 minutes, and i’ve waited over a year due to various delays. still very unusual to not have a big gaping space in that area, and i’m shy about chewing over there. on the way back, we saw a beautiful 5pm sky over the sangres as we proceeded down the “t” road on our way home.
this morning we saw former secretary of defense gates discussing his new book: "Exercise Of Power: American Failures, Successes, And A New Path Forward In The New Post-Cold War World." his emphasis on our lack of strategy over the past 3 1/2 years was striking, and made me reflect on my own strategy, or lack thereof.