Bird Feeder
HELPING A MEDIUM SING
This summer more folks are asking me why paint in so many different mediums. This pointed question has made me articulate an intuited tendency. Just as with my children, I work to bring out the best qualities and characteristics in a medium. This means learning and exploring what is unique about a given medium and helping it achieve its greatest potential. The past several weeks I have returned to watercolor which for a while, I must confess, has bored me. But giving up control and becoming the guide of the water has released unimaginable potential. While drawing, composing and knowledge of color nuances of the pigments create a foundation letting go and letting the water engender organic movement is a thrill!
Exercise:
Create white shapes which break the page up into interesting shapes ( this usually means shapes which are not geometric, do not fit into a geometric area are more interlocking).
Keep these areas dry for where there is no water no color will go! Use mask if you want to be able to be truly free with water.