"Pumpkins" Ben Doss, Living Arts and Science Center, Lexington, KY

This is a work by Benn Doss, a high school student from  Kentucky. He was very interested in working with watercolor. It was very exciting to have him in class because of his sophisticated color work and internal vision. He asked me if it was alright to use colors that were not "realistic" and I told him to go for it. This is the result of his inspiration. Watercolor can be a challenging medium and his ability to keep his color clean and work using "wet into wet" watercolor technique is just amazing. He defined the forms using deeper purples and blues and worked very quickly. Working wet into wet was a perfect match to express his internal color story and creative intelligence.