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 painting is another in my Sierra series. All of the scenes are from photos I took while backpacking a few years ago. While I am probably past my backpacking days, the beatuful scenes of the Sierras are vividly imprinted in my mind and with a bit of luck, I will paint them as I remember them. 
posted by Alan Marriott @ 4:04 PM
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