Sunday, March 30, 2008

Haskell View

paint
look
change
relate
complicate

knees
ache
from the squat
i use
to get
this view

down this hill
up that one

our lady spires
telephone poles
lines
rigging

killed the color

there are two
no,
there are three:

one night color
with my window
reflection
suggested

second:
black and white
day
no clouds
value, plotting

third
black and white
night harbor

soon i will
go to
the studio
maybe tomorrow.

oh.
i forgot to tell you:
i use acrylic as a meaty watercolor
very good for value studies
i use it as a drawing medium
i do not like acrylic color
and i do not like the way brush strokes flatten out
what i do like
is the easy soap and water clean up.

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