Does anyone remember this half imperial sized painting from a few weeks ago?
Well. It’s been staring at me for a few weeks now and my feelings towards it have been plummeting with every glance!
I felt that the best thing to do with it, prior to throwing it out, would be to turn it over, fold it in half and use the back of it to play around a little.
There’s been some snow around in the UK of late and I think this steered me towards some of my favourite snowy watercolour scenes.
My whole watercolour renaissance – many many years ago now – was triggered by being introduced to the work of Edward Seago. I loved (and still do!) the directness of his paintings and their wonderful economy.
Taking out my favourite Seago book:
I flipped to a couple of my favourite snow scenes. I painted these without any preliminary sketching out – just purely by observing his paintings and letting myself get lost in the wonderful simplicity and total brilliance of his paintings.
After my recent dips in both form and enthusiasm it was great to feel more focussed and engaged with the process of painting again.
As ever, I always feel that these returns to where it all began – even though they’re far less frequent than they used to be – still serve an important purpose. On this occasion, it was great to pay homage once again to the brilliance of Seago, and also to go some way to recapturing and possibly reigniting that spark of what I love about painting that has felt sadly absent for some time now.