What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
What I love about water – ocean, lake, river, waterfall – is how it is always changing. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même. Change is inevitable. The challenge is how to capture the depth, the movement. In my abstract, acrylic paintings, water sometimes looks like water, but it also sometimes looks like space or sky. Honestly, it’s not something I always control. Some paintings just happen.
DESCRIPTION:
This collage showed me how much easier it is to create push-pull, the feeling of depth on a 2-D surface with collage, rather than my up-to-then usual medium, watercolor. If you don't like what you've done, you simply re-do it, until you do like what you've done. Once you've put down watercolor, there's only so much you can do to "fix" it.
2015 Collage Size: 24"x18"