Under Construction

Diagonal Construction

Like the previous work, this is a “painting construction”. That is the painting starts with a general idea of the process and then is pieced together on the fly. The subject matter, which here looks like you are looking up at some office building under construction and seeing some leaves floating down towards you, is accidental and comes towards the end of the work. I started with masking out some diagonal lines on a small sheet of watercolor paper with painter’s tape, then filling them in quickly. Then reverse the maks and filled in the sky with a large soft brush which gives some very subtle gradations in color.The contrast of these soft gradations and the hard edges seems to give the painting some depth.

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