New watercolors after EIRE

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When I was in Ireland I was rapt by the landscape...I have bought a full set of watercolors and drawing blocks because I wanted to catch in paper the deep emotions of ecstasy I was experiencing, but I didn't succeed because always when I was going to start a painting it started to RAIN :(
So... now that I am back in Mexico I have started again with my human landscapes... and I now realize that what I like most in the world is to grasp the sensuality of a feminine body, to seize the most primitive roots of my inner being...

Comments

Darth Tater said…
I have always liked your watercolors, so simple and complex at the same time...
10 September, 2007 16:09
Darth Tater said…
You haven't responded to my question, Odette... my own perception is that you are, at the same time, simple and complex...
16 September, 2007 03:20
odette farrell said…
Yes...simpler things are so complex...
What happens to me when I paint in a very easy way, the result is surprising even to me, I can finish an oil painting in half an hour, but during that time all the brushes were perfect and it was very easy to paint the whole. On the contrary I could be many hours even many days trying to accomplish a painting that at the end does not surprise me at all.
The paintings that were done in a very easy way are the ones I like...but it is not easy to paint in such an easy way, do you understand me?
16 September, 2007 22:10
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