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:
I've done several watercolors of this particular Ponderosa Pine in Yosemite and wanted to abstract it. (2011 was the beginning of my interest in abstraction.) Remembering a teacher who said tree trunks are not really brown (there are lots of other colors in there), I decided to make this tree pink. Once I'd done the first stroke of pink, other things had to change. This was a lot of fun.
2011 Watercolor on paper Size: 17"x13"