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“Two Colts”
Day 206 of my artwork retrospective
As I’ve mentioned before, my retrospective has forced me to really dig around my studio’s mysterious storage areas. There are still some pieces that I guess will never be found, possibly lost in my moves back and forth across the state and here and there around South Florida. Or maybe I have yet to discover the portal. Certainly, finding these drawings sent me down the memory portal I refer to as a “time tunnel” yet again.
These two colts are probably going to win the title of my earliest work, and that they were unearthed just the other day is truly a miracle. My daughter had never seen them before today. She exclaimed when she saw they were done in 1973. I was still a teenager, just getting into what I hoped would be a career as a professional artist.
They are a combination of charcoal and watercolor. I remember liking how I had left the rough lines showing of the drawing. Still do. Then, washing in colors for the bodies of the foals went pretty quickly, because that’s the nature of watercolor. Get in and get out.
When I found them, both were still matted and with a sheet of some type of plastic over the art, but behind the mat to protect it. Sadly, the backing was regular cardboard which stained the watercolor paper with its acids over these many years. The mat was in somewhat better condition but was still…
