Urban Sunday Park Stroll
SFG-FS 2
- 1989
- Gouache
- 37 x 46cm
- Private Collection
Series: Structure, Form & Gestalt.
The sub-category FS_includes works, in which the colors are smeared on paper with fingers and thumb
This whole watercolor sub-series started by chance. After getting married in Las Vegas, we made a honeymoon trip through Nevada to Florida. On the way, I found some aquarelle and gouache colors from brands unknown to me. I purchased a few just to test them later at home. However, some of the lodges had some letter pads in the room for their analogue-age guests, surprisingly made of high-quality matte paper (shown in the collage further below), and not having a brush, I started rubbing the newly purchased colors with my fingers, onto the hotel pads, just to see how good they were. Although many of the color boxes did not show any lightfastness ratings, a few did, and a few were astoundingly quite brilliant in tint. This method resulted in a distinct form of visual representation, very different from brush strokes. Subsequently, I continued to apply this technique to other types of papers.
