watercolor

12″ x 8″ Snowy Central Park 18

Starting from this painting, I would no longer use my seal along with the signature…
I have been using it because I thought it would remind people of traditional Chinese painting…
But now…I feel it is not necessary….there is no need in using it to tell people that I am doing watercolor with Chinese painting influenced style…I think the paintings could speak for itself.

Furthermore…I also get some feedback saying that the seal is somewhat a distraction…most of my snow scene paintings are dull…to stamp a red seal on top of it really breaks the whole atmosphere at times, and due to the fact watercolor paper I use have rough surface…it is really hard to stamp a complete impression onto the paper..

I might still use seal at the back of the painting…

I wasn’t quite satisfied with this one…the back ground was overdone…
and I thought I paid too much attention the those branches to the right side..
allowed them to get “too old”…..and branches to the left side were just terrible

trying to paint those cumulated snow on branches really disrupted  my “rhythm” of painting process… I found myself thinking more than painting intuitively…or could it be just because of the higher complexity???

over thinking …over doing…is it a good thing or bad thing??

Title: Emerging Spring at Central Park 2
Size: 16″ x 12″

I did a little retouch on this one…it was completed roughly half year ago…
the painting is available here:
http://stores.ebay.com/Josephs-Watercolor-Paintings