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)
little lake islands as seen from a kayak
the mood
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.
sporechestra
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.
gyroscape
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.
can you tell it’s water?
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.
purple clou–ou-ou-ou–ou-ou-ouds
(don’t ask, you had to be there)
ALT: There’s Red Hill across the lake, but looking very purple and green, under a really violet streak of sky.
don’t hug me
ALT: watercolor painting, loose and sketchy, of a dead pine in a forest, with bare and very spiky branches
reaching pine
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.
walking through the garden
ALT: Watercolor background which is mostly an exploration of textures and colors, green foliage, blue and purple shadows, yellow and orange flowers. It’s kind of a bit of lawn with maybe a hedge above and drifts of blooms from the right side. On that ground, as if in a different reality, there are 3 odd calligraphic stick figures, apparently a couple and one more trailing behind. The garden just wanted to be inhabited, I thought.
