After the full moon of March 31 Petra returned.
Franzi and I still don't know where she was and we can only surmise that the return of activity in the studio, between easel and wall, and the prospect of meeting Linna, our new acquaintance, drew her back.
I am not going to write much here about what Petra did in the first few days after her return to the watercolor table. Instead I thought I would just post a few pics of these warm ups before my next post on the large work that followed in April and early May. Basically, she looked around the studio at what had been going on in her absence and jumped back into the process.
Inkjet prints on 300 gram hot press watercolor paper, approx. 7 inches x 10 inches, of a photo of the cradled side of an Elegy panel; here Petra has begun applying watercolor paint.
On the table the inkjet prints have received additional blue watercolor paint. Behind are more prints waiting to be worked with, the Deciphering Elegy sketchbook, and to the far right one of the Twelve Poems and a watercolor sketchbook.
A blurry shot of what was on the table to the right; one of the Twelve Poems which Petra had begun sketching in watercolor in her sketchbook.
The inkjet prints from the cradled side of Elegy laid out in a grid on the watercolor table.
Closer up.
The last two pics of the highly saturated watercolors are important as they are the basis for what came next.