Red Square, watercolor and pencil on paper, 6"x6" 12/15/18

December 18, 2018 3:55 PM

Red Square, watercolor and pencil on paper, 6"x6" 12/15/18
This is a collection of 46 watercolor paintings, all different, made in sequence on the days of December 16th and 17th, 2018, as an exploration of some ideas about both serial art and the authority and reliability of an artist's description of their own work and working processes.

Role: artist

posted by cortex (7 comments total)

Amazing!!! Are these for sale?
posted by The Toad at 8:10 PM on December 18, 2018

I haven't thought much about whether or how to sell 'em yet. Partly it's a question of whether I'd be okay with parting them out; while I've done a lot of painting in short series where each painting feels reasonable standing alone, this feels more like a unit to me, a cohesive whole. I dunno, I'm still chewing on it!
posted by cortex at 11:04 PM on December 18, 2018 [1 favorite]

it would be interesting to see these laid out in a 7x7 square (though you'd have 3 blank spaces...).
posted by chavenet at 3:56 AM on December 19, 2018

I might have to make some more red squares for you.
posted by janell at 3:21 PM on December 27, 2018

No. 35 made me laugh and I spent quite a while on No. 38, thank you for sharing these.
posted by ActingTheGoat at 5:29 PM on December 30, 2018

This is amazing and I love it!
posted by blurker at 11:37 AM on January 10, 2019

These are like Miniature Rothko's .

I LOVE ROTHKO!

The. Best.
posted by Faintdreams at 4:35 AM on January 11, 2019