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Faded Blue Line

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Now and then those who manage parking lots decide to re-do the spaces, or at least re-allocate spaces: from handicap spaces to regular, or vice-versa. Since there are no pavement-line erasers, they have to paint over the existing lines. This is reminiscent of the working habits of some abstract expressionists who revise their painting leaving […]

Pentimento

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Today’s watercolor experiment: I was trying to draw portraits today. I didn’t use scrap paper or sketch paper. Instead I used my good watercolor paper. It was disastrous. I erased the whole thing, except for bits here and there. Painting over another painting or drawing (with some remnants of the original still visible after the […]