Pouring Inside the Studio, May 9, 2010

1950 Chevy Sedan Delivery, poured watercolor

Normally, my watercolors are 8 x 10″ or 9 x 12″ since I like to carry D’Arches watercolor blocks around with me in the field.  However this one I’m working on in the studio, and it’s 24 x 18″ which is huge for me.  I’m getting lost inside the composition, which I guess is a good thing.  I feel no rush to complete it, and am really enjoying the process of pouring the pigment onto wet paper, tilting it around, and creating various effects and textures.  Sometimes I feel like a mad scientist in his laboratory.  I’ve done plenty of work with X-acto knife, toothbrush, masking fluid, paper towels, squirt bottle, salt and other various tools that I usually don’t carry around in the field.

Tags: 1950 Chevy Sedan Delivery, Americana, Chevrolet, Chevy, drybrush, Edward Hopper, field painting, French Impressionism, Hillsboro, nostalgia, Our Town, plein air, poured watercolor, Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, rural, Sherwood Anderson, small town, Texas, watercolor