Conjunction Painting

I came home late from a sculpture session at UALR, working on my "Go Ask Alice" sculpture, so the last thing I was thinking about was landscape. But when I got out of the car to shut the gate, I looked up.... Holy shit! I was totally immobilized by a sky full of stars. It was March of 2012 and Venus and Jupiter were in conjunction, 3 degrees apart. Arching over them to the south were Taurus the bull and Orion - and then a car came over the hill up the road, its headlights completing the parabola. Bingo. This is a perfect example of how I am ambushed by an image. I'm not expecting it, not out looking for it, thinking of something else, and then bam! There it is. Star gazers may like this paintings for its astronomical accuracy - except for my enlargement of the planets. Artistic license. I made this watercolor, an oil and a linocut from this ambush. This is on heavy watercolor paper, 30 x 23 inches, mounted on 3/16" archival foamcore, 34 x 27 inches, ready for framing. WATERCOLORS When I returned to representational art in the late '70s, watercolor was my first love - probably because it was so different in technique from the abstract oils I had done back in Florida eight years earlier. I became a transparent watercolor purist, working from light to dark, no opaque paint, ever. I used masking fluid in all kinds devious ways to achieve intricate highlights I couldn't get by painting around them. I got over the purism eventually, and sumi dishes from Japan became my preferred watercolors. Some of the lighter colors are more translucent than transparent and can be almost opaque if dry-brushed, allowing me to use them on black paper a few times - something unheard of the watercolor world! But mostly I use white paper for light, and I still use the masking fluid when necessary. I try to get the same high contrast, dramatic chiaroscuro effects in my watercolors as in my oil paintings.

Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:27 W x 34 H x 0.3 D in

Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.