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A Series of Paintings, Lithographs and Mosaics
(University of Oregon, 1954-06) Kimbell, Leonard
For me transparent watercolor seems a natural medium. There are many aspects of it that appeal to me. Its cleanliness, directness and clarity. It has potentialities of drawing which I admire and lends itself to a rapid inquiry not so evident in other media. The character of the brushwork can be seen, in fact is difficult to hide, and it can be given full use in the painting. With its combined characteristics of drawing and painting, and with the added charm of its directness, watercolor has been for me a most beneficial medium, and it is most certainly in it that I have come nearest to achieving what is for me some manifestation of that spirit I would like to achieve - a spirit of directness inspired by an immediate response to some aspect of whatever I have observed. As I have used it, watercolor has had the character of a medium for studies, a role for which it is well adapted. It can have the authority of a record of a thing observed and as such more often than not, reflects an atmosphere of confronting the situation itself.