The myriad of possibilities opened with yesterday’s post, condensed today with the completion of my watercolor. I decided to try my hand at a campfire, since I could imagine it filling up the spaces I left vacant. I created the space that reflected the fire light with the underlying quinacridone nickel and dabbed in shadow […]
I never realized how crazy the world of retail was until now. Last year I was worked very few hours, as I was inexperienced. But now that I know what I’m doing, I work a lot more and, this time of year, the store is open even longer than usual. How is this relevant to […]
The idea today was to place my forest trees according to a fractal distribution along the horizon. I failed to discover how to do this, however. My next thought was to use the Fibonacci series both for height and lateral displacement trees. [I was fascinated by this arithmetic series in high school to the extent that […]
I happened upon a technique of growing watercolor ‘trees’ by allowing earth-tone pigments drip into a pre-wetted section of paper. My first efforts (Landscape, Fiery Landscape, Rocky Landscape, Trees Around the World, Trees for Flat-Earthers) were fantasies. Yesterday’s post was not about creating trees, but rather about composition and layering. I took the same tack today. Individual trees were even […]
I began today’s tree painting as I have for the past several days: introducing earth tone pigments to the wet half of a 12″x9″ piece of watercolor paper. As usual, the pigment bloomed into tree-like forms. I wanted to make a forest so I let the first color application dry, re-wet it and added another […]
As a sequel to yesterday’s ‘Trees Around the World‘ the painting below is for those who, despite the evidence, believe the world is flat. I call it, “Art of the Future”. Long live the past!
Thanks to Kerfe of (methodtwomadness.wordpress.com), whose comment on Fiery Landscape inspired today’s watercolor experiment. I used the same method of dispersing color blooms that I used on Landscape, Fiery Landscape and Rocky Landscape: I pre-wet the paper and touched a pigment-laden brush to the wet paper. The resulting dispersion arrayed itself in forms of trees. I […]
When I was a kid someone told me, or I heard somewhere, that dreams arise from the subconscious. So, I thought that if I thought about scary things I didn’t want to dream about, it would be in my consciousness and therefore I wouldn’t dream about them. Well now I know the origin of that […]
I used the same technique as I did yesterday to create my windbreak line of trees. These may be the charred remains of the trees from yesterday, which were afire. I’m very happy to say that there remains some greenery in the rest of the forest, that one can see in the background. The foreground […]
I revisited my tree-growing technique from the landscape I painted a week or so ago (Landscape). I wet part of the paper and left the rest dry. The idea was to apply drippy paint to the dry part of the paper and allow the run off to encounter the wet paper. When that happens, the […]
