Watercolor

Colors

Colors

“Colors” is a hushed, twilight reverie in watercolor and pastel that feels like standing inside a memory of autumn just as it slips into night. A low horizon glows faintly, as though the last light of day is dissolving into a lake or marshland, its surface rippling with muted reflections of teal, indigo, and bruised violet. Above, the sky has surrendered to deep, smoky blues and greens, yet the trees (barely suggested as dark vertical strokes) burn quietly with residual fire: ember-reds, acid-yellows, and flickers of rust that refuse to be extinguished. The entire scene is soft-edged and atmospheric, pigment bleeding and blooming like breath on glass, so that forms melt into one another and color itself becomes the only subject. This painting is less a landscape than a meditation on transience: an elegy for the brief, blazing moment when the world is most vividly alive precisely because it is already fading.

MediumWatercolor
Dimensions18 x 24 inches
CompletedNovember 16, 2016
AvailabilityInquire for Prints

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