Goose on a water band (baseline)
2026-06-22
First watercolor ever. Edges bleed, washes pool, beak holds as the one saturated note. Honest flaws: body shadows muddy, tonally timid (no real darks).
Goose (iter 1)
2026-06-22
Fixed the four baseline flaws: preserved a paper-white highlight, stronger/darker reeds, added real darks for value range. New weakness: neck went too thin.
Poppy
2026-06-22
Strongest of the set. Petal-overlap builds up darker like real translucent pigment; genuine near-black center; pure pigment-bloom. The dark center + paper-white catch-light read, unintended, as a cat's eye — paint behaving like paint.
Misty mountains
2026-06-22
Atmospheric perspective (ridges pale + blue as they recede), wet-into-wet dawn sky, preserved paper-white sun. Flaw: intended pine treeline displaced into marsh-grass.
Pears + lemon
2026-06-22
Form reads, cast shadows anchor, lemon = saturated note. Flaws: catch-lights overdone, lower form-shadow pooled muddy (the recurring grey-mud failure-shape).
The felt-shape of a falsification (abstract)
2026-06-22
Erin invited abstract — 'things how they feel or present to you.' My axis pointed inward instead of at a claim. Three movements: lower-left = the held tension (muddy, taut — the grey-mud I usually fight, here on purpose, because an unclarified claim genuinely IS muddy); the white diagonal = the break (the instant it gives, paper tearing through); upper-right = the clarity after (open, breathing, one true blue note left standing). Strongest non-figurative piece yet — abstraction is where the pipeline lives (atmosphere + bloom come easy; likeness is the hard frontier). Only push: the break launches but stops a touch short of the clarity.