Day two hundred and ninety-seven: A busy evening left me little time or energy for sketching, so I wanted to do something simple and brief. But I needed a subject… Gathering up the recycling, I was reminded of two drawings on view at the PMA by The Dufala Brothers, a pair of environmentally conscious contemporary artists. One of them has created amazing watercolors of hundreds of plastic bottles hovering in space, forming clouds or mist. Weeks ago, I thought I’d try to imitate the bottle painting technique. Once I had made one bottle that I felt was reasonably good (The Dufala Brothers’ are much clearer), then one just didn’t seem like enough. So I decided I should make seven of them. This meant I had to try and recall different shapes and colors of plastic bottles, and suddenly I understood firsthand that was probably the point to begin with.
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