Today’s watercolor experiment: I am still in the abstract mode, as I have been for the past couple of days. Today, I decided to experiment in the same vein with peacock blue, a Holbein pigment made up of a green (PG7) and phthalo blue (PB15), quinacridone red and lemon yellow. In the color test strip […]
Yesterday, my watercolor experiment was all about allowing watercolors to flow into each other to create patterns and mixtures with very little artist intervention. The artist sets up the scenario and then allows the watercolors to do the rest of the work. Today’s watercolor experiment: Today I used the same pigments as I did in […]
Sometimes I have to strain to come up with a post. That’s not a bad thing. I don’t want to get to a place where I do not have a daily goal, especially since my retirement. I had planned to work but ran smack into: 1) the economy; 2) ageism, especially here in Silicon Valley. […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: The idea I had in mind when I started today’s composition was a science fictiony scene with two blazing suns at the horizon, each in the midst of a solar eclipse, a phenomenally rare occurrence on my made-up planet. I drew the horizon about 1/3 of the way from the top of […]
Change of pace for today. Circumstances dictate that I take a break from the outer landscape to concentrate on the inner, at least for today. Had a crummy night last night. Dreams. I can’t recall exactly what they were, but I’m sure that some of them had to do with my mother, who died in February […]
The study I planned for today was another rendition of my ‘Break’ watercolor. Yesterday’s painting was a realization of the important visual aspects of the photograph I took during my break at work the other day. There was much more drama in that composition than in the original painting, which I thought was just a […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Yesterday I briefly talked a little bit about the difference between photography and painting, the way I see it. I take some photographs as reference, intended to be used as the basis of a painting, and others as photographs. My artwork used to be exclusively photography, back in the days of film. But […]
I don’t ask to take breaks at work. I like what I do. But break time is mandatory and they tell me when I have to leave for 15 minutes. Don’t get me wrong, I love going out in the sunshine and exploring the environs, which consist of a parking lot and a restaurant that has […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Have you ever woken up with a feeling you can’t identify? That happened to me this morning. I sat down with a blank piece of watercolor paper and started to think. I started with a flat brush and drew a streak with gamboge, a yellow pigment. All my first strokes are curved. […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I’m trying to wean myself away from petals. Those of you who have been following my blog lately know that I have been painting succulents and succulent flowers for a while now (Hockey Brush, Abstractish Succulent, Unknown Succulent, Another Stab at It, If You Can’t Sing Good…, Yellow Succulent Flowers, Again, Into […]
