Vision in motion, paint big

This is practice. An exercise. Form and color.

Do you see a character? As in, a letter of the alphabet.

Or do you see a character in human form?

The daylight quickly fades for this January afternoon. I chose a larger brush to apply pigment. At the university, the art professor instructed, “If you can’t paint well, paint big.”

It was not criticism, but rather a modernist declaration. He provided an atmosphere that allowed guidance rather than dogma.

I load the larger brush with the muddy water from the tray and a touch of pigment found between two watercolor cakes. The transparent layer is applied to the dry paint. A technique called glazing.

This is not an art lesson. It is a conjuring up of an image.

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