continuing work on 2021 watercolor 8 today / by Philip Tarlow

2021 watercolor 8  13x20” at the end of my painting day

2021 watercolor 8 13x20” at the end of my painting day

2:52 PM: i continued working on this one on and off throughout the day. it hasn’t jelled yet; maybe tomorrow. the light blue surrounding the rocks on the bottom is a new look, and i’d like to keep that feeling as i work on the upper portion. in the next phase, tomorrow, it will be critical that i feel good in my body, as i have today, and that it be a bright, ideally sunny day and not uncharacteristically grey, as it was for a few days this past week. and now, we’re off to the stupa trail. waking, especially on a rocky uphill trail at 8,000+ feet, has numerous benefits: physical, emotional, and yes, spiritual.

12:39 PM: following a delicious breakfast, i launched into the drawing for 2021 watercolor 9.

always on the alert for new ways of perceiving the creekscape and distributing the watercolors with my brushes, i’m slowly progressing on this one.