April 23, 2019
For a while now I’ve been aware that my color preferences change with the seasons. Really! Grey, winter weather brings out warm colors. Lots of reds, yellows, and oranges show up on my canvasses during ski season. As the weather warms and the sailboat goes in the lake, I invariably shift to a cooler palette. I wonder if I’m painting half warm and half cool paintings at the time of the equinox? I’ll get back to you on that.
At one point I tried to figure out why the shift occurred. And after some considerable analyzing and soul searching I came up with my answer: the shift occurred because it did. There is no reason. I’ve come to accept the fact that I don’t need to know why.
“Morning Ridgetop” is definitely a height of summer painting for me. It seems a little early in the season for such a pale, cool painting to come to life, but there it is. It happened! And I don’t need to know why. And the boat isn’t even in the lake yet!
“She said, “there is no reason”
And the truth is plain to see.”
– Procol Harum
Let’s keep in touch,
Marshall
MADE ME LAUGH AND THAT’S REASON ENOUGH
QUIT ASKING QUESTIONS
THAT PAINTING AND THE COLORS MADE ME FEEL HOPEFUL THAT SPRING IS COMING AND AND THE COMBINATION IS HAPPINESS PERSONIFIED
KEEP ‘EM COMIN’