Art in a Suitcase

Because I have been traveling for the past two years, I haven’t had the space to make large paintings. Instead, I turned my efforts towards mastering the art of watercolor and working out of a small tabletop suitcase that turns into an easel. These are a few of my recent watercolor drawings done on the “road.” My focus has become exceptionally line-driven. My thoughts on this are interesting. Each line represents a new view of my subject, creating a greater understanding of its form, an almost sculptural understanding begins to take shape. The repetition of lines mapping each form becomes a mantra, a meditation of form, shape, and movement. The lines and movement breathe life into the work. Pattern and shape break the form into manageable components. I connect to the subject again and again until a moment of understanding occurs; then I repeat the enlightenment, like the refraction of light, which is never a single occurrence, but the measure of many.

I’ll post a few of my recent sketchbook pages in another post to illustrate this point a little more.