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".
This experimental painting is semi-abstract with only the tree shapes and colors suggesting the reminants of a forest fire. It was done in two steps. First, the underpainting of wet into wet was let dry. Then, The blue foreground was added as were the drips depicting burnt trees. A couple drops of red acrylic ink suggested continuing hot spots. 
posted by Alan Marriott @ 1:51 PM
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