Falling into the Koi Pond
April 15, 2009
I’ve been painting and drawing koi again. I have so many paintings and drawings around me, I almost feel as though I have the koi pond in my studio. Drawing the water, the fish and the reflections is mesmerizing. And with no pun intended, I must say that so far I only skim the surface of this koi pond. The relationships between water, light and the passage of time, the movement of the fish in their fish world, these are weighty matters that I cannot penetrate in my pictures just yet. But I contemplate it daily.
I’ve gone fishing.
April 16, 2009 at 12:42 am
By coincidence I have been watching a whole back koi tattoo developing over at my favourite tattoo site. That is a fantastic painting. It really does capture movement which is the only evidence of time. Fishyfish, symbols of everythingness.
April 19, 2009 at 3:49 am
This piece is much brighter. As they are constantly in motion there would be a ton of paintings in that pond.
Looks good.
April 25, 2009 at 3:00 am
Damn – it is like that Degas guy was speaking French or something.
April 25, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Bill,
I was hoping someone WOULD ask, so that I can seem to understand French (hope springs eternal).
“L’air qu’on voit dans les tableaux des maitres n’est pas l’air respirable.” (Only Benedicte knows if I remembered the spelling correctly!)
“The air we see in the paintings of the masters is not the air we breathe.”
Yes, Degas did speak French, and I’m glad that it is not Greek to me. (Well, most of the time anyway.)
Still up to my ears in koi …
Aletha