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10,000 Islands Watercolors--Devil In The Details

2/17/2012

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The brief visit I had to 10,000 Islands Park--I forget if it is national, state or local-- was interesting. It was at the end of a day where I had trod in the Big Cypress and walked on the boardwalk in the Fakahatchee. The sun was going down, it was not a cool day even in the FLA winter. That means there were mosquitos--especially as the sun was going down. But I took a photo and both of these are based on that. I had to run out of there or get eaten alive

The devil is in the details and when I try to paint them. This isn't an abstract cliche for me. When I try to actually paint details of what IS I run into trouble.

Fortunately I do not care about what is real.

I care about the end result being what I want to be. These are not that but they are an impression. The above is postcard sized and the below is 8 x 11 (ish). I want to do more about the everglades, big cypress and other area parks. And I will--at length.

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    For many years I painted. Then I stopped. These paintings started out a sort of experiment. Even when I did paint I never did watercolor. I spent a lot of time trying to be Van Gogh painting oil. Most of the paintings were unfinished. I decided to start using watercolor based only on the recollections of what my father had tried to teach me years ago. The newer paintings are the more recent. If you go back to the beginning you can see the early stumbling ones.

    I didn't start by drawing, I didn't practice. I just painted. I haven't included ALL the paintings and at some point I will post the first ones I did. But most of the paintings--for good or ill are here. Some are oil and also gouache.

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