The Freedom to Create

Creating the story by adding movement and the number of elements in the painting. Years ago I had created this little watercolor of a boat sailing in the sunset. Floating through the waters it seems rather directionless. I felt it was rather stagnate even though the painting has movement. SS Sailor  In the second painting I aimed for a more loose effect with using watercolors and ink. Loosening the controls allows for more imagination within the painting. The second painting has more depth by permitting the paint to flow where it wants. Thus creating the movement of the sailboats breaking through the waves of the sea. Creating the splashing water was purely accidental as my brush touched the paper mistakenly and I liked it. The colors of yellow, orange and scarlet in the sky flowed where they wanted to as the water provided the vehicle for the pigments to flow.  This painting was created on a 9 x12 watercolor paper , a nibbed pen for inking, my big fat watercolo...

As summer is wrapping up I was sharing moments with my daughter of "my best summers were....", as I was retracing my younger days. We haven't any photographs from our grandparents so I began clicking and sorting through my memory bank. This picture came to mind of sharing moments with my grandmother sitting in the enclosed porch snapping green beans.  I'm not sure if my sister shares the same fondness of snapping beans and shucking peas but it was wonderful to me. Photographs fade over time but the memories are savored forever.