Well, it happened. I lost the war with my blank slate today. I had some ideas, but I couldn’t get them on paper to my satisfaction. My train of thought had been in the direction of trying to visually depict mental states. I didn’t seem to have problems with sleep, dreaming or thought (see my Sleep, Day […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I am very proud of my sketch for today’s watercolor study. I practiced on a sketch pad until I had it down. And it was just one line! Paul Klee would be so proud. I wanted to continue the theme of depicting mental processes. Yesterday’s study was my rendition of daydreaming; the study I […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Thankfully, I was able to conquer the blankness of the watercolor paper. I was worried about that yesterday. Today. I continued my visual exploration of sleep. I did some preliminary drawings on a sketch pad. Nowadays, when I draw non figuratively I always think of Paul Klee’s metaphor: taking a pencil point for […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: My experiments over the past few days have covered pairs of complementary colors (From a Magazine, Imaginary Forest, Next Complement Please). Yesterday I combined all, in an abstract study, the design of which just popped into my mind (All Together Now). Today’s study is less about painting and more a continuation of […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Having used the complements of the primary colors (blue with orange in ‘From a Magazine‘; yellow with purple in ‘Imaginary Forest‘; and red with green in ‘Next Complement Please‘), I wanted to combine them all in one composition. A word about the composition: I could not think of a natural subject that would allow […]
Itty bitty watercolor experiment: I was happy with my use of complements in my experiment posted earlier today. However, the composition was not that good. I painted another little sketch using the same green-red complements as in ‘Next Complement Please‘, however I added a bit more. For the road, I used the purple/yellow combination, and […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Today is the day to test the final pair of complementary colors in a small watercolor painting. In ‘From a Magazine‘ I painted goldfish and rocks using orange and its complement, blue; ‘Purple Woods‘ was an experiment using purple and its complement, yellow to depict a woodland scene. I created a test strip […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I tried to apply what I learned in yesterday’s Purple Woods for another take at depicting a number of trees receding from the foreground. Like yesterday, I only used two colors (except for the fox): permanent mauve and aureolin yellow. The principle to which I tried to adhere in today’s composition is the […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Yesterday’s preliminary experiment in purple was a first step in my investigation of purple-yellow interactions. I was hoping for a result analogous to the orange-blue exercise shown in the latter part of the post, yesterday. In this expansion of my sketch shown in my post, From a Magazine, the goldfish were separated from […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Yesterday, I used orange and its compliment blue, to render a school of goldfish (if a threesome can be considered a school). Today, I thought I could use that scheme, color and its complement, with another pair of colors. I chose yellow and purple. I had to find another subject as amenable […]
