Love Of Fall

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I’m convinced the artists from the past we hold in high regard would have tried anything and everything to make their painting stronger or their process easier. Early in my painting life I mentioned to my friend and fellow artist Jerry Werner (RIP) how I was challenging myself to paint exclusively with ‘transparent’ watercolor which means not using any white pigment but utilizing or reserving the white of the paper for the white in a painting. He chuckled and said “I’d put it on the floor and rub sand into if that would make the painting stronger. While I still have not gone that far, I have let go of my discipline of no white pigment. It served me well in my early years, but I now realize the only thing that matters is if the final image is compelling.

So, in this case, after creating the mood and locating where the sun and breakers would be, I picked several leaves off the tree in my neighbor’s yard, slathering them with watercolor pigment, both transparent and opaque aka gouache, and smashed them onto the damp paper. Once completed you must look closely to see evidence of that, but it’s how the foreground foliage started. A couple of my favorite quotes are “fortune favors the brave” and “necessity is the mother of invention.” Onward…

Original Framed Watercolor 41 ½” x 29 ½” – SOLD – Image 31 ½” x 19”

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