Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Croton

© Carol J. Stevens     Watercolor

My 1996 trip to Hawaii was for a month with my paints and a bathing suit.  I started in Maui, where I'd slip out each night and steal a colorful croton leaf to add to the growing painting.  The weather was sunny and bright as were the leaves.  We moved on to rainy Kauai which resulted in two rainy paintings.  I couldn't paint on the sunny croton on a rainy day or vice versa.  It was then that I realized how my feelings and surroundings affected my painting and was reflected in it.

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