Blue Sky, Gold Sky

Blue Sky, Gold Sky

Still a novice at this painting-by-hand thing, I whipped out the watercolors and doodled mindlessly in bed during the commercials while watching Ferris Bueller’s Day Off on cable television. Yes, I was playing with watercolors in bed, without paper towels no less. Never mind mask-taping the paper to a backboard of any kind; I was far too lazy for even that. I didn’t even sketch drafts first; I just set brush to paper and let the watercolors flow.

Clearly I need some discipline, not to mention some direction and purpose. It’s no wonder my images came out so static and boring. See for yourself; these are my fifth and sixth attempts at painting with watercolor:

Blue Sky
Gold Sky

Now that you’ve seen how uninspired I am with watercolors, please tell me what to paint! If your idea inspires me, I’ll send you a print of what I end up painting (if it’s any good, I’ll want to keep the original).

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6 thoughts on “Blue Sky, Gold Sky”

  1. You can still paint better than I. As I have stated before, my stick figures look like they came out of a horror flick.

    As for what to paint, why not a nice mountain/forest scene. Something along the lines of the sawtooth mountains. Where the mountain are rugged and have white snow tip tops, and tall majestic ever greens filling the forest as a river runs threw it with a touch of a rapid or rocks causing some disturbance in the flow of the water. And if your want, you can put a fisherman in it. I hope this gives you some ideas.

  3. April,

    I like both watercolors–you have a sort of painted emptiness going on there, a homage to Edward Hopper in the yellow morning one.

    Together they seem surreal. I could see you doing a whole series of these "empty" paintings. You know how that sitcom Sienfeld was suppose to be about nothing?

    I can see maybe an empty clothesline in the series, some clothes pins and the coarse lumber of a fence behind. Maybe a dream of weeds by the koi pond. The insides of a mailbox. Or just a landscape of polar ice and no animals. A picture that refuses to give in to the viewer’s expectations for "things," people, modernity, or ideas. The edges of nature… The places just out of view of the deadly human animal. Where fantasy reduces everything to a small banquet of metaphor, the recurring obsessions that hook our minds.

    I really like your two pixs a lot and had been admiring your Cecil Cartoons and some of your other art work. You just keep getting better and better, and your web sites are tops.

  5. it’ ok , you could do better. Try some modern art. Try to do a Aprilasso ala picasso. mean the cubicles. instead of the cubes , could do it with the eyes. try painting a portrait of lots of eyes forming a woman watching loads of eyes forming a wave.
    call it …, you could find a better name for it :).

    complicated…. 🙂

    this is something i wrote a couple of days back. I dont like it that much though.

    ciao
    vj

    Victory lane
    ————-
    Write, Write again,
    Writing about you,
    The path I refused to tread,
    Here I am again.

    The path is you,
    Winding down future lane,
    treading my feet softly,
    Walking by the solemn side,

    Thou art my only companion,
    The one I refused to tread,
    ‘cos, I know,deep down,
    It’s always been you by my side.

  6. How about painting elves? Maybe some scene from LOTR involving Arwen and Aragorn?

    Perhaps a scene of a Japanese garden complete with the tiny arched bridge?

    Or how about trying Chinese style painting with watercolours? Peonies, maybe?

    I really loved your second painting, btw.

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