As a relatively new painter, I am still exploring and attempting to find ways to express my artistic ideas and feelings. Watercolor is a great teacher because it is somewhat less forgiving than other media, requiring one to think ahead before commiting paint to paper. On the other hand, it readily provides for spontaneity in the way paint, water, and paper interact to produce unpredictable results.
As far as my journey as an artist is concerned, I like to characterize it in the way a great California watercolorist, Milford Zornes, has remarked: "I'm a painter and I will leave it to others to decide whether what I produce is art".
My original painting of Canyon Fire seen earlier on this blog was inspired by a trip to Canyon de Chelley a couple of years ago as well as a Tom Fong demo. I'm entering this painting in the San Gabriel Art Society abstract show.
A cloudy day in Greencastle, Co. Donegal - painted after our trip to Ireland. I tried to capture the mood of the typically gray days and small towns we we found in this part or the country.