This is the latest watercolor I've done recently, an image I copied from photos of some draft horses in a nearby town (I'd name it but I can't remember what it was.......Pembroke I think). I've been working in watercolor trying to get some interest in painting that I seem to have lost. My paintings have been so uninspiring, looking like the work of talented high school students who haven't really learned yet what art is all about. What joy I have found in returning to watercolor after so long. One of my friends and patrons commented when I posted my first new watercolors on facebook, "The magic is back." How wonderful to hear that. Watercolor was always my medium until I lost my support system (other watercolorists who championed the medium). When I went back to school to study art watercolor was barely mentioned. Besides, it didn't allow the layers and layers of paint necessary for the kind of art I was doing then.
There is such immediacy with watercolor that it doesn't lend itself to the layers and layers of paint that I found necessary to express myself at the time. It is a statement......here it is. ........don't look beyond what you see.
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Oh, Cheri, I love those horses! And I admire you for being so gifted with watercolor, which ( (a non artist) have always thought must be the most challenging kind of painting. I'm very glad you are doing this again. Please don't stop!
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