Fire – Final
As promised, here is my final version of Fire, as inspired by Maurice Sapiro’s Flash Point.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Fire
I was very impressed by Maurice Sapiro’s latest work called Flash Point. It is a wonderful Turneresque scene. I’ve often wondered how Turner created his color transitions to infuse his work with such drama. Sapiro also suffuses his painting with atmosphere. Today’s watercolor experiment: Although Flash Point and many of Turner’s works are oil on canvas, I […]
White Spot with a Twist
Today’s watercolor experiment: I began my study by washing the watercolor paper with perinone orange. I wasn’t quite sure of what I was going to do next. I have found that perinone orange is a very mobile pigment. It diffuses like crazy when dropped onto wet watercolor paper. On the other hand, cadmium yellow pale […]
Chasing the Blues
Today’s watercolor experiment: I began painting today with a number 20 round brush loaded with ultramarine blue. I drew a freehand arc that didn’t quite soak in. I never understood the term ‘dry brush’ until now. It doesn’t mean ‘dry’ as in, absence of water, it means relatively dry. The brush is not so wet with […]
Cleaning
Cleaning I haven’t been to the dentist in a while. It is such an embarrassment. The longer I don’t go, the more embarrassing it is. Dentists are very nice about it, at least the ones I’ve been to see over the decades. When I was I kid I never had novocaine. I’ve walked away from […]
Beginning, Middle, End
I have been entertaining the idea that writing and painting involve similar processes. This is how I see my process, of late. I understand that not everyone sees these two art forms this way. There are probably painters who do not have any preconceived ideas of what their paintings mean, or any idea of what they mean once […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Fruit that Looks Like a Tush
Painter’s Block?
I have posted daily watercolor experiments for quite a while now. Sometimes I get inspiration from a previous post. It becomes fodder for my next blog entry. However, I feel a bit lost today. Writing For more than a week, I have been writing in a disciplined manner: no less than 15 minute sessions, at […]
Update on Madge
I started a series of abstracts about a visually challenged triangular woman named Madge. In the post, Comfort Zone, subtitled, Madge is About to Get the Point, Madge is walking gingerly, not quite used to her white cane. Unbeknownst to her, there is a triangular obstruction directly in her path, pointed at her eye. I repost (an […]
Weekly Photo Challenge : Signs
I saw the weekly photo challenge from Dreimal Kunst, for signs and just happened to be obeying the one above. There was no need, as the street was blocked off from traffic.
