There is a undecided quality about the start of summer that calls for watercolors.
The watercolor painting process embodies a breathless and airiness nature of the process itself, as reserved spaces for where the paper remains white renders a visual remembrance of the beaming sun breaching through apertures in tree branches. The process is brisk--not unlike the season's seemingly quickened pace--as paint dries quickly and water evaporates from the paper and my designated work-time is hurried as I hasten my painting pace.
Brush to water, brush to paint, brush to paper, brush to paint, brush to water, brush to paper.
There is an adjustment period akin to the adjustment of the body to hot temperatures. For oil and water do not mix and it is not easy to practice oil painting and watercolor painting, which is why I choose to devote periods to one at a given time. Of course, it could also be the saturated, high-pitched, sometimes-hackneyed watercolor palette hues that demands a transition to this medium with the commencement of summer.
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Progress on new "Bicycle" series. Wheels created with a "stamping" technique of a sliced orange.
Pineapple season!
June 21st sketches
July 4th sketches