The following pictures started as an exercise, with nothing planned ahead of time. Just playing with new colors and shapes to see where they would lead me. You make the paint dance across the paper and follow where it leads you. Then you get this picture in mind and finish it. They were originally on one sheet of paper, but I split them, making them into two pieces.
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The second piece I'm trying to picture with the first. Were they side by side?
This one involves more thought (IMO). A friend of mine took an art appreciation class and explained to me (when looking at one of my watercolors, of a barn) that he liked how he couldn't figure out if it was dawn or dusk, the back or front of the barn, etc ... That's what this piece does to me. Are there under water flowers? Or in a field? Maybe the tall ones are weeds?
It makes me think ...