1 Fluidity, 2011
Watercolor
9 × 12 in. (23 × 30 cm)
John Norman Stewart feels that he must be discovering something when he is working. Sometimes this is a struggle, but it is mostly an enjoyable process. Stewart likes to venture outside of his comfort zones, often beginning with little preplanning, especially when working with abstraction. Abstraction, in his words, is “very freeing, maybe like hang-gliding or diving off a three-meter board as a member of the high-school swim team.” He is also affected by his choices of materials and colors, such as “what a drop of phthalo blue does next to orange in a puddle of water on the surface of the paper.” His favorite medium is watercolor, partly because of its unpredictable behavior, but he works in various media and styles. “To me,” says Stewart, “diversity equals freedom and artistic exploration.”
1 Fluidity, 2011
Watercolor
9 × 12 in. (23 × 30 cm)
