Eucalyptus Bark Clothesline
Deep into the shaded woods, sunlight trickling through the enormous Eucalyptus trees. My eye was struck by the sunlight as it danced around the peeling bark, draped over fallen branches. Watercolor on 100lb cold press paper. Twins Pine Park in Belmont, California.
Contact the artist: debra@envisionlit.com
Or see the artist’s website: www.envisionlit.com/DiMurov-Art
Width: 15in
Debra Murov
“My intent is to paint an emotion that evokes a feeling rather than representation of place.”
Watercolorist, primarily. I strive against being a purist-watercolorist, i.e. allowing other mediums (natural inks, pastels, and/or metallics) to creep into the paintings to express an emotional feeling of place and time.
After four decades in the field of graphic design — beginning with T-squares, triangles, radiograph pens, and vellum, when delete was an electric eraser or knife blade and ending with digitized, electronic files delivered via e-mail, I have paused the “command Z” keyboard stroke and returned to my first love, marks on paper.
In 2022, wielding a brush, watercolors and paper, I moved from the blue screen to the blue skies and joined the Bay Area Plein-Air Painters group. I am drawn to the multitude of colors that I observe as the morning sun
shifts,
dances,
and creeps
across the landscape into the afternoon sunlight during the three hours we paint outdoors. I prefer plein-air (open air) painting as an emotionally, expressive starting off point but allow space for the finished work to percolate inside my studio.
Email: debra@envisionlit.com
Website: www.envisionlit.com/DiMurov-Art
Instagram: dimurovart
