this feels right
Sep 07, 2008

I experimented with Chinese water colors today.  The past year has been one big experimentation in the studio, really, and I keep waiting to settle in.  Little bits of this and that feel right, but in the end the acrylic feels too plastic (as a friend so aptly put it yesterday), oils feel too slow and trudgy and toxic, plaster is too fragile, silicone-as-relief is still promising (but not really do-able without a scale to measure the parts), clay is too dusty and hard to finish/fire.  All of them have their exciting points, and I haven't given up on a single one, but none of them felt quite so right as these watercolors did today.  I can be messy and drippy and painstakingly intricate with them.  They are water-based (woohoo!) for easy easy cleanup and no fumes!  Who knows how I'll feel tomorrow, but today they seem like a perfect fit.

 I forgot to bring my camera to the studio to snap some photos.  Maybe tomorrow.
 


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