Today’s watercolor experiment:
This is another in my series of watercolors from photographs I took in my wanderings around New York City.
I think it was the red roof that caused me to snap the picture. Of course it was also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a chance to record one moment of an historic architectural project: the construction of an addition to Manhattan’s Guggenheim Museum.
In contrast to the round spirals of the original museum building, the addition was square, with the exception of the street-facing wall that eased the contrast from round to square.
The construction trailers, plywood barriers and gates tie the ethereal architecture to real life: blue collar meets the art world. When the scaffolding is removed (literally), the building becomes part of another plane of existence.
Guggenheim Addition
4″x6″ 140# Mixed Media Paper
Guggenheim Addition – Reference Photo
I understand why you have switched the order of photograph and art work but it is taking me a while to get used to! I think I prefer to see the photograph first – but perhaps that is just habit. I like this piece. I find myself more drawn to the yellow than the red. When I focus on the red I see three points of it in the photograph (roof, poster, traffic light) and notice that you have included just two. I think it gives more prominence to the people reading the poster than in the photo perhaps – because my eye is drawn to that point of redness.
Yes, I omitted the traffic light, much to my chagrin… It should have been there. I think I will go back to photo first. The change wasn’t sitting well with me mainly because it seemed to be an index of accuracy rather than a source of inspiration. (Sorry Memadtwo… I’m glad I tried your suggestion, but I must go back to my original way of posting.)