Just in time for summer I have some swamp land in Florida to sell, complete with air conditioned habitation tubes. I made several versions of Lemon Sunset, large and small, most of them are posted on my blog. This one was a test run of the new brushes I got recently, to see how they handled in various styles and circumstances. The big difference is in how sharp they are for detail, which is usually the case for a new brush, but these ones give me the feeling that the tip will stay sharp for a long time to come. The other thing I notices was how much paint they carry on one continuous brush stroke. That made certain effects more feasible, for example the charged-shadow of the trees on the hill top, they were done wet in wet. I think my next large work will be another attempt at Lemon Sunset, why not, eventually I will get it right, right? At the moment I am re-working "The Conversation" an old painting I did on large format (36 x 44"). I trimmed it down a bit, cropped you could say, but then decided to repaint the whole thing on the back side with a new composition that better reflects the idea I had for that painting. I am making a series of small studies for "The Conversation" reworked, and will post them when I get a good one.
5 x 8" hot press, watercolour. Feb. 2019
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