Fences

Back in May, I was at the beach without my notebook, and I hadn't bought the camera yet (so my imagination and motor skills were still intact). I drew this little drawing on some lined paper with a pencil scrounged from the floor of the car, but I always liked it.

In some ways it's the reason why I wanted to look more closely at Kline, since I wanted to learn how to simplify my work, which had become needlessly fussy.

So did a tissue paper "level" overlay in software and produced this:



Now I want to paint it, and simplify it perhaps even more, now that I've learned a few things. For example, in my original from May I plopped the thing in the middle of the paper with a nice even half inch of white space all around. No more! I am looking at edges and interior spaces more, and thickness and thinness of marks.

I like the gray of this new drawing, which was originally unintentional, since it was the color in the digital eyedropper at the moment, but it suits -- memory, misty foggy beach, barriers that are falling down but of woody substance.

Will post and get hopping, since it's supposed to rain heavily this afternoon, so I may loose power.