My Practice
I have always felt drawn to watercolors because it challenges everything that I am: it is free-flowing, spontaneous, and unpredictable, whereas I am structured, a careful planner, and deliberate in my actions.
What is even more compelling is that as freeing as the medium is, it is actually quite technical and requires a lot of thinking on multiple levels when brush hits paper.
When it comes to studying the figure, I have learned that it is as complex, if not more, than designing a building. Interestingly enough, the same concepts of “how to design a building” also come up in “how to draw the figure.” There are parallels between gesture and concept, drawing overall shapes before focusing on smaller details, and the underlying desire to transcend past the physical.
