I think I must paint this tree every year, or at least take a photo. I like the way watercolors do what they want, and I can’t spend a lot of time worrying about it. (surely more serious artists have a lot more control of the medium, but I enjoy its spontaneity)
ALT: watercolor depicting a tree on a rocky ground, with a mountain range in the background (old New England mountains, not the jagged forbidding kind) if you look closely there’s a person standing by the tree, almost transparent.
Annual picture of Red Hill as seen from my cabin’s dock.
I’m back from vacation. Didn’t do much art, but here are three little postcard-sized watercolors that I managed to produce. It was really lovely, and we’ll see how well I can move back into my regular routines!
pretty good sailing weather this week (I prefer to kayak)
ALT: water-soluble crayon and watercolor, abstract, calligraphic. vaguely resembles a coiled snake with an extremely grumpy aspect, possibly wrapped around a stone or egg. I have a head cold and spent the whole day on tedious data entry, just a few minutes in studio.
ALT: watercolor painting, whimsical. Four pink and purple, fungal shaped beings stand in front of a little flower with outstretched leaf that seems to be conducting them in song.
ALT: crayon and watercolor, in soft blues and red/pinks. The drawing is vertically oriented, with something like water on the lower part, but the upper part seems to be a lake-and-hill landscape, oriented 90 degrees off. You could probably orient the page so that the landscape would settle, but that’s not the way I drew it.
I don’t really get tired of making these watercolors, it’s like reliving blissful vacation dreams
ALT: watercolor painting of lake, mountain and sky. This one has clouds that are more blue than gray, the mountains are distant and purplish, and the trees on the shoreline are a dark green mass of cool shade. And probably bugs.
ALT: watercolor and ink painting, trying to depict the surface of the water reflecting the sky above and showing the ground below in the shaded part, and some leaves overhanging, in the upper right corner.
ALT: watercolor painting of a dark pine tree with branches and needles tending upwards, with a quietly dramatic sky that echoes the motion of the tree.
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