White and Red Curb
Yesterday’s white and red composition was an abutment between the white and red visual elements. Today’s white and red configuration shows an abrupt transition of colors of one entity.
Yesterday’s white and red composition was an abutment between the white and red visual elements. Today’s white and red configuration shows an abrupt transition of colors of one entity.
It feels good to get back to abstraction. I have some vague notions of images I want to reveal, but no real pictures that I want to transcribe from inside my head. The watercolor below is a start.
This is the completed sketch from yesterday:
Sometimes we walk everywhere seeking graffiti, sometimes when we stand still, graffiti finds us.
To peruse old photographs in the 21st century is to pry up the laptop lid, open the files on the disk (that one of the techie relatives made from the original paper photographs), and scrub through them on the screen. Below is a watercolored pencil sketch of just such an occasion.
One of the books from which I expect to derive inspiration is Paul Klee: Irony at Work by Angela Lampe and Michael Baumgartner. It is from 2016, but new to me. Here it is on my bed.
View of a bedroom.
I haven’t had a lot of time to paint recently. My studio is in disarray (slightly). Hopefully I will put it back in use soon.
Among the Christmas toys we gave William, our grandson, was a Lego model of the Eiffel Tower. He built it with his dad, with much prompting, instruction and re-direction of focus. We also gave him a painting set. He wanted to paint with me and started right away when I suggested the Eiffel Tower as […]
I started work on another level of remove from the hospital visit last week (see At the Hospital, One Step Removed). I have a couple of ideas in mind. Perhaps I should narrow it down to one idea. Don’t know if this is going anywhere.