New Painting
![Image](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzwuMYfpd3Q0-yXnmiBJ1gqqv-Ijfoy0FbfYHOGZjSfVdLFXZ5uPKBMi37c0RQZhq2duGXhULzgfprGbsUhQgJab7S-Y2U8uCDOKKw19wJonygtmYkYArvk-JN7Ca8CeDE6RFK4auoddY/s640/island.jpg)
This painting is a watercolor on paper (7" x 4 ½"). Though the setting is imaginary, the colors are based on studies done in Central Park at night (3 of which are posted below). I think this painting is a fair demonstration of one of the pay-offs of color studies (a definition of which can be found in my post of May 15), which, in addition to being a crucial means of technical exercise, are also a fertile means of thinking on paper. The very act of laying colors down onto a surface initiates a chain of thought, which is accompanied and directed by words, but enacted by images, the goal, in this case at least, being the formation of a composition.