Life's a Stitch

Meet an ancient wall, located in Tarragona, Spain, a product of the Roman Empire during the 3rd century. 

Now mix it up with modern techniques. My specialty is watercolour painting on traditional cotton rag paper. Now it’s possible to apply watercolour to canvas, first covering it with a coat or two of “ground”, which dries to the texture and absorbency of paper. Using this  technique, here’s a piece of that Tarragona wall in progress. 

Cropped reference photo and beginning of painting:

Progress:

The best part of this technique is the ability to display watercolours without a mat, frame or glass.

My artwork has a lot in common with knitting. I seem to accumulate an uncomfortable amount of UFO’s (unfinished objects). This one, however, is close to being done. And I need to finish a few more because I’ve committed to participating in a show of ten artists in November. Yikes.