It looks like you've really found your idiom in water colors. These show much more control, I think, over the medium, and a more directed use for it.
I was looking at some tubes of gouache the other day, and thought of getting a couple. You might consider using them in conjunction with water colors, if you want to get a real contrast of transparency and opacity. However, you already seem very proficient at creating a range of solids, from washes that bleed into each other to opaque masses with defined edges.
Are these guys riffing on the paintings after Hoch? Or are they a whole new thing?
-- It is relationships between the visual and the personal. It is creating art that exists outside of this world and outside of my mind. I am not depicting real places or real beings, but instead am moving between control and loss of control of the medium, hoping to discover a new world somewhere in the middle. It exists as a reality, as a space, consummated through the viewer's connection to the piece. Certain areas of each piece are intended to attract attention, but this may not be obvious at first. After looking a little further, we discover these areas, however, humbly, but strongly, holding their own. Some call these "lima beans" --
9 1/2 x 2 1/2 in (24.1 x 6.4 cm)
6 1/2 x 5 1/2 in (16.5 x 14.0 cm)
6 x 5 in (15.2 x 12.7 cm)
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It looks like you've really found your idiom in water colors. These show much more control, I think, over the medium, and a more directed use for it.
I was looking at some tubes of gouache the other day, and thought of getting a couple. You might consider using them in conjunction with water colors, if you want to get a real contrast of transparency and opacity. However, you already seem very proficient at creating a range of solids, from washes that bleed into each other to opaque masses with defined edges.
Are these guys riffing on the paintings after Hoch? Or are they a whole new thing?
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