Usually, when I’m finished with a watercolor, it reminds me of something. Today, I can’t think of a thing to name the composition below. Maybe that’s a good thing. At least I didn’t take my pencil of a pre-determined walk. (Note: Paul Klee, Bauhaus Master used the phrase, “take a pencil point for a walk”, as his way to describe the process of drawing.) I used to think that when I drew a line on a piece of paper that it must represent something that was in my mind, however crudely the likeness was to the mental image. Sometimes during my process of drawing a line, I allow myself to be guided by its previous contours as I am drawing, not on a mental image.
My painting below began as pencil work of the latter description. I call this composition Abstract 032316, to index it to a date. It doesn’t represent an object in the real world or mental image.
Abstract 032316
12″x9″ 140# Cold Pressed Watercolor Block
Reminds me of one of those Georgia O’Keeffe flowers, so close up it becomes abstract. (K)
Thank you, K. Interesting to think of moving the view point of this composition back to see what it really is. (No idea what that would be.)
j