![]() ![]() It’s the same with watercolor, even when we think “that’s it! I know everything,” it still surprises! And to tell you the truth – I love that! I do wish to get surprises on my paper, I do wish to be friends with watercolor, and I appreciate its nature. Cats are never predictable and a cat always does whatever he wants. I think that in some way, watercolor (the media I love so much) is the “cat” among other art materials. On the lower right, there is a small beetle going the other direction and it stops for a moment to wait till this brute has passed. In this painting, the moment is a sunny morning and one of the brutes in a stray cat tribe is walking around to find a place for good morning nap. I paint the feelings and the strong connection between me and that moment. When I paint cats from those captured moments, I don’t paint just a cat, I paint the “moment” that I saw in the situation. When we paint any subject, we have to feel a closeness to it. I have an opportunity to look at them and take pictures of them in all kinds of situations, which I often use for my paintings. I live in an area with a lot of feral cats and one of them now lives in my house. But I feel something really special about cats. Basically all of nature inspires me a lot. Why a cat? I love painting animals in general. DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ Watercolors – 5ml.DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ Watercolors – 15ml. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |