Watercolor Haiku

Hunger Pangs

7/13/2022 11:48:54 AM | By Kris | Comment on this

I've been insatiably hungry lately. My appetite for play and exploration has become pretty consuming. Curiosity rules. [...]

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Seeing with Fresh Eyes

4/2/2022 1:08:44 PM | By Kris | Comment on this

Doctor, you say that there are no halos around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, an affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision... [...]

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On The Easel

12/24/2020 | By Kris | Comment on this

Lately, I’ve been experimenting with a more neutral palette. For this piece, I’m starting out with an underpainting of darker values [...]

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Intoxicated

8/15/2018 | By Kris | Comment on this

I’m intoxicated— stumbling drunk from steamy summer days, moss covered rocks, the surprising hop of a toad in my garden, cicadas [...]

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A Watercolor Paradox

4/20/2015 | By Kris | Comment on this

One of the things I love about watercolor is it’s fragility. To own a watercolor is to enter into relationship with a living thing that requires [...]

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Today is for Softening

2/18/2012 | By Kris | Comment on this

Ango, a zen practice period, means coming together in peace for meditation, study and work. An ango lasts for [...]

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