Been playing with more reflections/duplicates
Another little watercolor, this time with some silly little m birds turning into clouds in the back.
The different directions right now seem not to stop. I also have been randomly doing some watercolor landscapes, I’m intrigued by the concept of a “painter’s algorithm”, a phrase used in reference to landscapes often. The idea is that there is a particular way in which landscapes are constructed (light to dark and back to front) as if there is somehow an “incorrect” way to make a painting. Besides my personal opinion on such a restrictive means of painting I’ve been mining these little paintings for some pretty useful tools, such as reflections and spatial play.
This ones been around 2 weeks, sort of the jump off point for the larger paintings I’m working on currently.
Started this little guy last week, it’s based on a massive stage/balcony that showed up in a dream 3 or 4 years ago. My interest right now in it is creating light without white, like the blue on either side creating this cavern like atmosphere.
Detail of the attempted Philp Guston water.
Update on earlier BDT painting, this time some more space and my attempt at Guston’s black water.
Another BDT in progress. I’m not sure is the blob is The Other (Leconte & Freud) or if it The Observer. We all are Observers, viewing the larger hyper-reality that we can not engage in, the global community we are all aware of yet seem to not feel a part of .
