graphite & watercolour/30x20cm
Today’s entry being the result of another two evening sessions’ struggle with the encroaching gloaming, with the natural ‘light’ conditions being no better than crepuscular at any point, even the outset of proceedings, hence the rather dark, shadowy & mostly subdued nature of this watercolour, notwithstanding allowance for the practice of the represented objects being viewed, as is often the case, contre jour (which phrase takes on that second & most appropriate meaning under the prevailing circumstances).
At least such circumstances allow the edges of the objects to take on a certain stark &/or glowing quality, as habitually, enabling them to be highlighted in terms of both tone & colour, in this particular instance, picked out from the spatial continuum within which they appear as the deepening shadow serves to claim them for such over the temporal course of the drawing & painting process, which thus acts as a record of.
Furthermore, arranged as pairs in such close proximity, other light effects of cast shadows & reflection between adjacent objects come into play to add to the complexity of the whole, the challenge being to represent such ephemeral phenomena as observed (some more fleetingly than others), to give presence to such whilst at the same time somehow suggesting their transience.
Soundtrack:
Sparklehorse 'Good Morning Spider' & 'It's a Wonderful Life'
As the light fades into looking-&-painting-curtailing gloom, so the final, diminishing chords of 'It's a Wonderful Life's closing 'Morning Hollow' resonate more plangently & poignantly yet...
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