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".
The second of my experimental paintings, it actually resulted from a failed attempt to apply the same technique as in "Wild Horse". After applying the paint with the plexiglass, I mixed the result on the paper to get the dark sky, added an ultamarine blue for the sea and when partially dry, scraped out the sail boats and waves with a credit card. 
posted by Alan Marriott @ 1:44 PM
1 Comments:
This one is great! I like the aspect of the sail boats being "etched" out with a credit card. Nice work!
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