Watercolor can be very strong and intense as is this poured piece which required a red mat as well. I like suggestive abstractions rather than non-anything abstracts because it tips off the viewer to my idea. With no suggestion, viewers tend to try to find something which may be frustrating . Titles help, as with Klee's paintings, which took me some time and study to understand.All painting is abstract more or less.
Since showing Big Hump Fire at Blue Whole Art Gallery, questions as to how the paint created the intensity and texture have been asked. The 140 lb Arches paper was tipped to center which caused darker paint in the middle and lighter at the edges. At the top the tree form was saved , note the run off line of paint. The moon shape was slightly enhanced and the shag tree poured with the dregs of darker paint I used dry pigment ( dried up w/c tubes) of alizarin and crimson lake with some fine grit undissolved.
There was a fire on the east side of Olympic National Park called the Big Hump Fire which seemed to fit
1 comments:
Love love love this! Can't wait to see it in person. Beautiful... and even if you weren't intending it, I see a moon in the corner and the silhouette of trees. Really breathtaking.
Have you named it?
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