A wabi sabi scene

 A landscape was finished using a brayer roller to remove and thin the still damp paint. I wanted to create an aged feel in this painting. At the time I had been looking at cave art and petroglyphs. I love the way metal acquires a patina or rusts or peels with time. I admire the craquelure of paint or a varnish. I think I succeeded in creating the aged effect.

This scene embraces the aesthetic of wabi-sabi (侘寂) --an acceptance of transience and imperfection. It's the appreciation of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".

Dried and pressed plants sit atop a watercolor blotting paper. The paperweights are rippled, appearing uneven in the reflected light. The artist's layman has lost its hand and is spattered with paint. A glass jar with a chipped edge holds the odds and ends leftover from various projects. A quick sketch of a face is on a discarded grid notecard.