Blog: Colors in Costa Rica

Featured image (detail view) : Beach Sand

For my journey in Costa Rica this year I brought paper I have never used. Smooth very fine 300#.  It’s a very tough paper to paint on. Extremely challenging. It’s very difficult to get something I can call “finished.” This piece,  “Beach Sand,” has about twenty layers of paint on it. There’s a lot of texture in it because of the layers. I think I can finally stop working on it because I’ve completely obliterated the smooth paper. It shows how powerful being comfortable is and how uncomfortable the challenge is to conquer.

Colors 

Reds, blues, yellows 

Tuxedo birds

Striped dotted 

Birds birds birds

Singing every morning

Big sky

Big water

Many many blues

So many teals 

Different teals

Never duplicated

Ultramarine

Cobalt

Shades al all

Fish, fish, fish

Lime green

Chartreuse 

Phalo real

Yellow

Deep blue

Purple 

Metallics