Monday, July 15, 2013

Calapooya Mountain Summer

I taught in my studio today and did this as a demonstration of some techniques. It`s now predictable that I`ll end up being quite excited by the discussions when teaching. Hearing the different motivations, intentions and aspirations individual painters have is stimulating.
The painting is based on a drawing I did in a moving car traveling south on I-5 several years ago. The most casual sketch can contain enough information to evoke a memory of that moment and a more fully realized work later.
watermedia on paper 9x12


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2 comments:

  1. MaureenJuly 16, 2013 at 8:53 AM

    Lovely.

    I read an article about artist David Dewey the other night (it's in the new issue of Image Journal). I liked this quote and thought of you: "I teach students to learn to paint watercolor from inside of the paper, or metaphorically, from the ground up, like a building. It's a foundation that is in all great watercolor."

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  2. kingfisherJuly 16, 2013 at 9:35 PM

    A nice, bright sky. Do you make any color notations on your sketches, or just depend on your memory and whimsy at the time of painting?

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