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Refinement

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by

I have refined my watercolor collage sketch a bit, rescanning and working with digital variations. Sometimes I spend a long time in my chosen manipulation software in order to make my transformations and enhancements. It is not always easy or quick selecting the desired sections of an artwork, and this especially true with watercolors that may bleed into each other, and on textured paper where shadows create variations our eyes and brains will generally ignore!

So in addition to working the original a bit, I have tried light and dark as the background frame, and applied different digital manipulations on the trees separated from the window and shadows.

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Can They Listen?

P.T. Artist Sandra Stowell Posted on by

As this painting has evolved, the title has changed from “Can We Listen” to “Can They Listen?”.  The finished color palette of the painting (at left) is so “white guys in business suits” that the figures are no longer “we”, but rather “them”.  The figures have now come to represent so many of the predominately white male U.S. senators currently in the news.

I did not set out with quite this plan, but I have been listening to the news, and thinking of the Senate Judiciary Committee members as I created the painting.  Some all the Republican Senators who will soon vote on Donald Trump’s poorly behaved Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, have climbed onto my “canvas”.

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