THE VALUE OF WHITE

BY JOHN A. MORROW

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50  ARTIST'S PROOFS

FRAME SIZE 16X20

PRINTED BY HMS FINE ART ON EPSON VELVET PAPER

In the beginning there was white.

White is unique to watercolor painting because it is the absent of paint.  A great void that artists venture into with reverence and caution.  It is a battlefield where creators armed with brushes (and anything else they can get there hands on) struggle for control of rebellious puddles saturated with pigment.  It is a place where practice, patience and perseverance produce the skill that results in victory.

Sometimes on a very wintry day, I like to travel around town and observe how a crystal confetti atmosphere and a blanket of drifting snow changes many familiar scenes into unfamiliar ones.  Like nature editing the landscape by eliminating all but the essential, there is a little magic in the air as one sees for the first time that which they have seen so often.  In a turbulent sea of white, color is as rare as gold.

Reproduced from a watercolor painting.

This original was in the 2005 traveling exhibition of the "Adirondack National Exhibition of American Watercolors

THE VALUE OF WHITE

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