….high summer……the days had the free stirring temptations and undertones of an event drifting backwards in eternity…..pickerel weed n arrowheads all out lining the shorelines in amongst the water lilies / add a gentle breeze stirring the waters in wavey unison and the possibilities for a new series catches our eye……

 

‘pickerel weed edging the windstirred afternoon drift of autumn 1’  24″  x 15.5″  mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel)

we have up to now explored pickerel weeds a dozen different ways /  from the calm mornings before anything moves  to dusk with mirror reflections in the calm water /

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diptych: ‘pickerel weed edging the windstirred afternoon drift of autumn 2 & 3’                                        – each 20″ x 13″ mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel)

 

 

pickerel weed edging the windstirred afternoon drift of autumn 4                                                      19.5″ x 28.5″  mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel)

 

‘pickerel weed edging the windstirred afternoon drift of autumn 5’                                                  12″ x 21″  mixed media (watercolour / acrylic painted directly on gessoed birch panel)

 

4 earlier studies of pickerel weed just offshore all worked out on watercolour paper

pickerel weed at dusk    22″ x 30″ watercolour on arches paper

 

 

 

 

pickerel weed at dusk    22″ x 24″ watercolour on arches paper

 

 

 

 

pickerel weed at dusk    12″ x 22″ watercolour on arches paper

 

 

 

pickerel weed at dusk    30″ x 22″ watercolour on arches paper