Well, I’m taking advantage of every opportunity for creating new work in the New Year, and as our winter weather has improved from pretty messy to awesome, I took a break from the large oil I’ve started (and which I haven’t discussed yet, it’s too iffy right now) and spent Friday morning at Kailua Beach with my partner-in-watercolor-crime Roger Whitlock to see what trouble we might do with the raw material of sand, sun, and wind.
I managed a couple of little paintings out of that session (and another session yesterday evening) but this is the only one worth having a look at. I might be able tweak some of the others into Salvation, or just re-attack them on another nice evening.
We joked around and had a darned good time while working. Roger has great prowess with “the dampened sheet”, and I value our far-too-rare outings together.
As for me, the watercolor work under such circumstances seems akin to jumping around in a swimming pool, especially working in-the-moment and with the drying times of the washes being so absolutely critical. It’s somewhat like a controlled disaster, I really don’t know how anything good can come of it, but sometimes it does, and it’s nice.
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