"I am in despair at the swift flight of time, and the utter impossibility I feel to lay hold upon anything permanent. All my hours and days go to perishable things."
- James Russell Lowell
After struggling the past few months with pretty much everything I've tried to put my hands on, I'm now finished this one measly watercolor study of a skyline in Brooklyn. I like the composition and the color scheme (I changed things a bit from how they appear --- sometimes things look right "live" but all wrong in a painting) but atmosphere and sunlight do very interesting things optically to the edges of forms and I'm afraid I'm having trouble catching that. But this study is successful in terms of composition and the balance between detail and generality. A full sized version is next and I hope to have that finished by the end of February.
