Crabapple contours, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, September 2024 (No. 3885a)
Brilliant red, yellow, orange and magenta shapes are broken up by a black and white pattern cutting across the diagonal. An organic eyeball seems to float in space. There is a game called eye spy where one person picks a colour and the other tries to guess where it is. Looking at this painting it seemed to be a high spy.
High Spy, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, September 2024 (No. 3885b)
Hearing about the titanic and how its disintegrating on the ocean floor I learned a new word, rusticle. Its like an icicle made of rust hence the clever name. The formation is created by iron bacteria that can dissolve and consume iron oxides this creating the drippy brownish shapes. The amount of iron oxide pigment in this painting seemed fitting. Van Gogh was known to eat his paint, maybe he got a rusticle surprise the next day?
Rusticle Surprise, watercolour 9 x 12" watercolour paper, September 2024 (No. 3886a)
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