Journal
Notes on colour and making
Small sequences
Single studies are easy to like and hard to remember. Lately the notebook has been filling with short runs of four or five, arranged rather than collected.
Two colours, held together
A pair of colours either holds or it doesn't, and the difference is rarely something I can explain. August was spent testing pairs and throwing most of them away.
River light, without the river
In summer the light stays on the water longer than it stays anywhere else. Lately I've been noting colours rather than taking pictures of them.
Paper and the edge of a shadow
A few sheets of cold-press paper have been on the desk for weeks. The interesting part is not the paper but the soft line where a shadow falls across it.