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 goal in this painting was to exaggerate the colors and to depict the trees in a more abstract way than I usually do. The scene is a melding of a bridge and creek we saw on a trip to New England and the California hills in the background. 
posted by Alan Marriott @ 11:56 AM
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