I have been “pushing” my watercolors into a new direction- combining them with ink and colored pencils and patterned papers. It’s a collage effect, but hopefully not too crafty. I want to convey the effect of altered surfaces and the impulse of control with lack of control. I love the precision of watercolors and the sequencing, but also love the random nature of water and watercolor and ….mistakes. Seems to hit the mark for me right now. But I will continue to work and work on my watercolor technique.
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In Need of Flowers
December 20, 2019
I’ve been painting landscapes of winter lately, and though I have been loving doing so, the bare winter palette becomes so limited after days and days. I need flowers. I know it is a convention: painting pretty flowers. But it makes me so happy to look at flowers and their amazing color and variations, their...
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Abstracting
December 29, 2019
I feel myself moving into a kind of happy limbo between water color painting and mixed media. Also between painting what I see, and abstracting it. It’s an interesting place to be. I like the limbo. I love to paint flowers, landscapes, aspects of the natural world around them. But I am not that interested...
2 replies on “Layer upon Layer”
isabe
Beautiful. I love the way you layer your paintings.
Julie
thank you so much!