07/10/2020
My painting, A Walk in the Park, that I posted earlier was selected to be in the San Diego Watercolor Society 40th International Exhibition by Juror Michael Reardon. There were over 800 entries from 22 countries! So needless to say I am thrilled to be one of the exhibitors. Some of the most outstanding and well known watercolor artists are in this show and I am so thrilled to be a part of it. It will be an on-line exhibition this year due to the pandemic, so no matter where you are, you will have an opportunity to see it at SDWS.org between October 1 and 31st, 2020. All the work will be available for purchase. So mark you calendar. This way you can see it several times. I thought I'd talk a little about my painting and how it developed. I am an intuitive artist, which means for me, I have a general plan as I start a painting, but add a lot of ideas and inspirations from the work as I proceed. A lot of things happen just because it feels like a good idea at the time. Sometimes a piece may sit for days, or weeks or even longer before I decide where the next step might be. This painting moved fairly quickly. I must have been in the zone. Those who know my art know that I am fond of circles and spirals. So they inevitably end up in almost every thing, especially abstracts or non-objectives. I am a doodler at heart. In this painting, I put the colors down on the Yupo (a synthetic paper) in a random fashion with nothing in mind other than looking for stimulating and bright. I let it get very dry before I began the design. Then I just started putting circles on. Much of the design came from lifting the the dried paint off the paper. Because of the plastic quality of yupo the paint does not absorb but sits on top and lifts easily. Just like Michelangelo, the painting was in there, I just removed the excess paint. In some other areas, I did do some painting on top of designs and color. This is one of my favorite ways to paint. If you are an artist, try it. If you want more information just let me know in the comment section. Keep your brushes wet.
