Sunlight Escaping
Every evening I follow
It always gets away
A watercolor piece I’ve worked on for a while. I finally feel like I’m making progress in rendering clouds. Among the many challenges in learning this medium: figuring out how to let go and accept outcomes. This is important at the end, but it’s much, MUCH more important during the actual painting process, as so much of it doesn’t land quite the way you intend… or maybe, when it lands, it reveals the gaps in your intention, and you have to be confident enough to let it live there.
The weary warrior is a common theme in my fantasy-adjacent paintings over the last couple years. I’m not sure why this particularly resonates with me, aside the from the obvious fact that it’s a romanticization of the struggles of aging, which increasingly beset your humble narrator as he passes through the middle of his life.
Too fast, too fast, and eventually you find that the fast and the slow all collapse together, like the arch that was holding up your life, toppling into the ruins of your history.
