Today’s watercolor experiment:
I must have been focused on graffiti during my walk to Adorama back in 1991 (see yesterday’s sketch: Graffiti for Rent), or graffiti was so ubiquitous then, one couldn’t avoid it. A few frames later on my roll of film, I found a photograph of a bit of graffiti on a store window. I think the attraction for me was the cast iron column and the car in the middle ground.
Corner Graffiti
4″x6″ 140# Mixed Media Paper
The graffiti message, which I decoded as “Naughty for Love” was a factor as well. I love signs.
Here is the photograph:
Corner Graffiti – Reference Photo
The colors in the photo are washed out. Color correction is an option, but I like the cast of nostalgia it conveys. The odd thing about the pairing of these images is the modern look of the watercolor and the aged look of the photo.
You really caught the effect of the dimensionality of the window with something in back of it. I really love this painting.
Thank you. I was trying to make it look like a window!
;>)
j