another vacation watercolor. I am enjoying the way that doing these causes me to flip through my vacation photos when I sit down in the studio. Then I spend the artmaking time revisiting sense memories that I wish I could convey in paint.
In my house growing up there was a print of a Paul Klee fish in a bowl. I spent a lot of time looking at it, as you might be able to guess.
Pretty much every May you get at least one rendition on the theme of flowers and bones. This year’s version brought to you by Mother’s Day and margaritas.
i wonder if it’ll turn into a butterfly, and will it still have that tail?
more big flower thing
vernal scents and songs coming through curtains of fog and rain showers
springy noodling
hide and seek buddies.
Early in my years of “drawing a day” practice I committed to posting whatever I had drawn, no matter what I felt about it. That includes pieces that are nowhere near finished. The point is to hold myself accountable by bringing you in as witnesses. I hope that will also encourage some folks to go ahead and do whatever it is that they love, by showing the many messy, imperfect and unfinished things that lie along the path of a daily practice.
I’ll add the finished version to this post when I get there.
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Finished now, on a day to celebrate a new president’s election, 7 November 2020!
