Abstraction into Landscape Part 2

More images made with granulating watercolours.

Abstract forms become elemental landscapes. 

Abstraction into Landscape

Playing with granulating watercolours to make abstract images which veer into landscape. 

From the archive - Blanchisseuse Bay

 I am back on track with the idea of occasionally posting old work from my archive.

Browsing an old sketchbook I came across this little watercolour study. I painted this whilst hanging out in Blanchisseuse Bay, Trinidad decades ago.

It  brings back memories of Caribbean adventures and a memory of a magical spot.

Water Rabbit

 It is the year of the water rabbit in the Chinese calender. Here are some whimsical sketchbook explorations of water rabbits

Water and wind - the sea

 And this:

Seahorses and wavy clam shell

A mixed media drawing using real drawing on paper, photographs of this and manipulating, duplicating and resizing images on the iPad

9 Seahorses

Fiery seahorses for a rainy afternoon

Fiery Seahorse

Latest of my seahorse sketches, this one is a digital drawing done with the XP Brushes App on the iPad

Sailing the Wind

LOCANA - Our Lady of the Water Element - Buddha of Mirror Like Wisdom

Here is an image, a piece I painted some years ago.
I am inspired to share it alongside today's reflections on the Water Element.

Sailing the WInd

Today I made a picture of a bird sailing the wind. 
Watching the seagulls, I was reminded of the work of Peter Lanyon and Georges Braque.
Have you ever watched a gull ride the thermals?  Here is Peter Lanyon's painting of a thermal http://bit.ly/r8q30H so evocative of Cornwall's coast with its currents and sea mists, so expressive of Lanyon's strong feeling for the elements. I imagine it as a record of his experience of gliding on the winds. I shall never forget how he was to die tragically in a gliding accident four years after he completed this picture.
A bird flies through Braque's studio http://bit.ly/qHlkar. It comes from a series of late paintings which are amongst my all time favourites for their spatial sophistication and complexity. 
On the ceilings of the Louvre Braque's birds fly. They are framed by a 16th century richly carved ceiling.  There is an apparent simplicity to the design. I admire his masterful handling of space and form. Here is a sketch he made for this http://bit.ly/nL7Ffz and here the context which frames them.http://bit.ly/paB1FP

Second Dead Sea Sketch

 

A hazy day, the beach hard and salty, dust in the air.

Three seahorses

 

Here is an alert and spiky creature in the ocean depths.

My dragon, seahorse and horse pictures are available as a 2011 calendar.  Contact me if you're interested: artist@buddhist-pics.com

Sea Dragon

Here is another dragon from my recent sketches.  

Scary?