Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Watts Happening!

scott waterman ink watercolor gouache paper 

Streets so steep you pray your brakes (or your knees), won’t fail but most of Los Angeles is a big flat basin. This makes for a big sky. Famously we have all sorts of palm trees, ridiculous enough in and of themselves but in fact there are endless whimsical and absurd forms to see silhouetted against our technicolor sunsets. When I first moved here I was so taken with shapes against the sky that this became the subject of my painting for years. 

scott waterman ink watercolor gouache paper

scott waterman ink watercolor gouache paper

scott waterman ink watercolor gouache paper

scott waterman ink watercolor gouache paper

scott waterman ink watercolor gouache paper

scott waterman ink watercolor gouache paper


After visiting numerous times then living in L.A. for close to fourteen years I finally made it to Watts Towers the last day of 2016. If I was disappointed it was only because to visit inside the walled complex you must take a guided tour of about an hour’s duration and that was just not enough time for me. This crazy fabrication is fantastic even against a grey wintery sky. 








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