This paper is more than 20 something years old, I ripped it from the watercolor pad with blue cover saying Aquarell, I think it is german. I think I bought it before my daughter was born. Last place were it was basement Upstate. I like everything old, its connecting time. I used ink and a little bit of Kuretake pens for color. Nothing special about this street, it is life what is beautiful, light and shadows, and existing. Size is 12"x12.7"
It is still 103 degrees here at 10:21 in the evening but this wonderful, evocative work transported me. Just great....thank you...
ReplyDeleteThank you Christy, I am glad you can relax for a minute in a shade of Brooklyn's trees. If it is 103 in the evening, how high it is at noon?
ReplyDeleteIt was 118 several days last week -- too hot to move but move we must in order to work. Today should only be 107 or so but humid. Keep drawing shade for me!!
ReplyDeleteYou are a treasure!
Thank you very much Christy for your kindness, I will try to send you shade and cool. The good thing you are probably tanned, I was never able to get a good tan, even sprayed tan was sitting crooked on me.
ReplyDeleteActually no tan for me -- very fair and freckled, former redhead turning white blonde in my antiquity in the sun. I ordered Palomino Blackwings upon your inspiration and love them so much I slept with one by the bed!! Thanks a lot - for a lot! I especially appreciate your frequent literary references...Anna A is a favorite and of course, M. Proust. When it is sweltering my old pal Faulkner fits right in, also.
ReplyDelete@ Christy. I am glad we are sharing love for Blackwings and Proust. I use to write down long sentences from his books and hung it on a wall, like paintings. I saw him in paintings.
ReplyDeleteYou read Ahmatova in English? Who is the translator? I read Faulkner long time ago, in translation. I use to read a lot, my mother collected a lot of books and all my life I was best friends with librarians, I fixed books, so they liked me and allowed me to browse shelves usually closed for readers.
Now I read very little, mostly books I can learn from: Natalie Angier, The book of Living and Dying, Betty Edwards, Pen and Ink, Reading Chinese painting.