Imaginary Landscape

This "color test" for the some of the first pigments I've made started looking like a landscape. That gave me an idea.

Last winter, after I made my first lake pigment (4/29/22) the first paint I made with it was watercolor. I have a small watercolor book, so I just smeared on to see how the paint worked. It suggested a landscape. I added other colors on as I made more pigments, and then paint from them. There was something that really interested me about doing an imaginary landscape. I tend to be terrible at drawing or painting from imagination, so for me this is going out on a limb. But there is something really intriguing to me about how many landscapes I’ve viewed in my lifetime have imprinted on me. The East 40 is a very different landscape-than where I live, and what I’m drawn to. I tend to be drawn to mountains, forest, and or rivers or oceans, but the East 40 has no pond, no stream, and is completely flat, with only a couple shallow tree lines. I’m not sure how this is going to play out in the actual paintings. It may not work out at all, and I might have to change course. Or ? Not to sound like an old TV show, but stay tuned for future episodes-I mean blog posts-to find out.