I started a painting the other day. I loved the marks I made with the brush and the combination of colors that resulted from the mixing of the pigments I chose. Then I chose to glaze the entire composition with another color. The result was less than satisfactory. I changed strategies and tried to accentuate the […]
Using the same palette as yesterday, and the same stabbing brush strokes, I created the watercolor below. My friend Kerfe (of method two madness) kindly pointed out the ambiguity in yesterday’s watercolor. I am pleased about this because a painting or any work of art is not just the output of the artist; the viewer has […]
In today’s watercolor experiment, instead of my usual sweeping brushstrokes, I took a page out of my grandson, Will’s book. To him, a paint brush was something to stab at the paper, stab and push the bristles forward into the paper. I stabbed, using a 1/2 inch Hake brush, first with Prussian blue and again, with […]
New Year’s Eve was a disaster. After work, at about 7:30, I went to pick up the food that Joy ordered at 3:00. In the standing-room-only area around the take out area, I waited for my name to be called, and waited. At 8:30, I asked to speak to the manager who said our order […]
All in all 2016 was a pretty crummy year. Hope things will be better for all in 2017. This is my visual summation of the year:
