My last post was in February so this post is a “catch up” to now. I have been sharing paintings of beach leaves through the seasons.
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| End of May |
Middle of May
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| Beginning of May |
Tightly folded like a fan and bound in a conical enclosure, the new leaves emerged and unfurled spreading their canopy of green.
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| Beginning of May |
In March I chose to paint an image (below) of two tenacious leaves using transparent watercolor. The thin, transparent nature of watercolor helped to suggest fragility and the ethereal quality of the faded, longest lasting leaf.
Here is a Wendell Berry quote from “New Collected Poems” called “Ripening”:
“Our hair turns white with our ripening as though to fly away in some coming wind, bearing the seed of what we know. “
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| March |
