The sea, children, flowers, palm trees, light, illumination, radiance, glow…the light. The light is what I am drawn to. The light is what I paint. Light outlining children’s faces, defining the edges and colors of a flower, tap dancing across the waves. The light draws the eye, the imagination. Watercolors alone let translucent hues glisten on the page.
Watercolor has the unique ability to capture portraits of light, the paper glows through the paint that reflects like no other medium. A tough master, after years of experimentation (my positive spin on “mistakes”) and happy accidents result in ways of dealing with my mischievous cats who like to step in wet color and leave their unique imprints. .
An indefatigable traveler capturing images to recreate, reinvent in the studio. The same sun bathes the whole world yet has different qualities in Nova Scotia, than in Morocco than in Bora Bora. Intensely tropical, bright even beneath the clouds, dappling the forest floor, twinkling in running water. Land or sea same sun unique light.
Each bloom has it’s own personality, perky, fading, vivid, colorful, or subtle shades of white. Yellow and purple tangoing in contrast, their shadows case on glass, grass, wood and earth urging a sprint to capture their splendor in paper, water and paint before it fades to seed and regenerates.
Some Indians won’t allow their photos to be taken because they believe the camera captures their spirit and they will lose it. A successful portrait captures the spirit and soul of the subject while it continues to dance within them. The challenge is for the artist to create an image that not only resembles the subject but embodies it. An image that looks more like the person than a photograph ever could, one that captures their essence at a moment in time.
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