More about creativity and artistic process It was awkward drawing the underlying icons for the painting from the ‘My Niche‘ post. The paper had a rough finish, I was using a pen that had permanent ink and I was anxious about making a mistake. Consequently, the ‘cloud’ formation I drew only had four lobes. When […]
My paintings of the past couple of days have been abstract expressionist watercolors (Back to Abstract?, Variation and My Niche). I worked diligently to organize my icons in a way that had some meaning to me, and to incorporate the metaphor of an invisible barrier between my older autistic brother and me. My ‘rubber’ images […]
First of all, I’d like to thank my good friend M, for the definition of the type of work I have been doing these past couple days (Back to Abstract?, Variation). Thank you M! You may see one of M’s (many) wonderful blogs at: http://ishaiyafreshlysqueezed.com Recent paintings The type of painting I have been producing recently […]
Yesterday my watercolor painting was a representation of the impenetrable barrier I feel exists between my older autistic brother and me. I still don’t know how to classify this type of painting. Is it abstract? Perhaps it is an abstract to someone other than me, because I constructed it with a theme in mind. I’m […]
I’ve been working on a couple of watercolors. The one below is a combination pen and ink and watercolor. I guess that makes it a mixed media work. At any rate, I don’t really know if it is abstract or not. It is definitely nonrepresentational – of the visible world. Using my icons I chose […]
I had a bit of a hard time figuring out how to put the earth tone colors in order. I had to disassemble my color strip book and remove those colors so I wouldn’t be confused by the more saturated paints. The problem I started today’s experiment with the idea of playing with unsaturated colors. […]
Yesterday I used all the blues in my watercolor box. Little dabs of them are now in the wells of two different plastic palettes. An easy, non-abstract subject which uses all shades of blues is the ocean. I started with the redder shades of blue in the foreground and worked toward the horizon with the […]
I have been entertaining myself with watercolor painting for a few years. Sometimes, it isn’t so entertaining, though. When I want to emulate a style that represents the ethereal sky at sunset, or something as simple as a dramatic cloud formation, I feel as clumsy as if I were trying to draw a detailed drawing […]
In contrast to yesterday’s experiment, I thought a lot about today’s watercolor. Before I continue, I must apologize. When I wrote, The Last Rubber Image, I thought I was done with latex masking fluid. However, I couldn’t resist another whack at it. After all, it was fun dripping and spreading it around. First step So […]
No, I don’t mean A Little Thought Experiment, as in “eine kleine gedanken experiment”. I mean, I gave this watercolor experiment very little thought. I started looking up references concerning Paul Klee’s iconography, with plans to research similar traits of Joan Miró, but threw up my hands. Too much research, too little time to write a blog. […]
