There’s a bit of everything in the bark of this tree. It seems to have its own ecosystem. I think I might zoom in on a couple of different areas to create several studies. There is a diversity of textures here just waiting to be sketched.
The work of Richard Diebenkorn was in the back of my mind today. I have been reading about his Ocean Park series. Everything about my paintings is different than his. He worked in oils, I work in watercolor; he worked on canvases on the order of 8×10 feet, I work on paper of 9×12 inches; […]
I found this tree hiding in the bushes.
I saw this blue trunk on one of my walks. I didn’t see anything cutting off the circulation, though.
I saw a tree hugger today. It was another tree!
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 […]
The other day I began a series about circles, inspired by Kandinsky’s Heavy Circles. As I was helping my wife shop yesterday at the department store (meaning as I sought out the nearest place to sit down), I propped my feet up on this coffee table, when I realized that it was filled with circles. It, […]
