Early this spring, while waiting at the doctor's office, I had a bit of an inspiration looking at a Richard Serra drawings in an old New Yorker. The drawing was a black irregular four sided shape on an off-white background. My mind jumped to a bright colored background, and the irregular shape became a rectangle. The idea of actually getting some bright color into my work was really thrilling. I got some old cardboard and set about painting all kinds of squares, using first a watercolor brush, then a paint roller until I got the right effect.
Being me, I saw a bird in the middle of it all, but first had to get the right feeling to the border.
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