watercolor-collage 123, 13 x 20” moments ago, at the end of my painting day
3:48 PM: i think the work i did today on watercolor-collage 123 made a significant difference, and may have brought it to completion. the entire bottom segment of the composition has gone, and, in part as a result of this it now breathes. a couple of important touches or red have appeared, as well as a little yellow on a couple of the branches. it’s not much, but enough to enliven the image and play handsomely off the blues and greens. in addition, and just as importantly, a scrap of note paper written by someone who’s handwriting i don’t recognize, provides an important space. this scrap was sitting in my pile of papers destined to be used in collages.
BELOW on the left you see yesterdays state. the composition was almost split in two by the passage at the bottom.
as well, i did more work on the smaller, 10x13” watercolor-collage 124, which is by no means resolved, but has progressed since i started it 2 days ago.
tomorrow morning we’ll take our trail walk, so i’ll get a later start.