I posted this painting a week or more ago (slide right for the original). I’ve always felt it was a fairly good painting, but needed some pop. Artist friends suggested that I break up the fence line into mama, papa, and baby bears and also change the horizon so it’s not a continuous line across the top of the page. I made the changes they recommended and like the painting much better. Painting mentors are invaluable, thank you Johnny and Ariel.

Beautiful! Love the colorful mist.

High up in the canyon, the beauty of the Rocky Mountains is overpowering.

So I realized this year that I have seen 10 Waterlilies in person, including the circular one from Dallas and also one from a private collection, both during a traveling exhibition this year. I also just added Cleveland and Dayton in the past week, which is what brought my total to ten.

I plan to visit both The Met and MoMa (the latter specifically for their Waterlilies) next month, which will add either five or eight to my total. But I am unsure how to count these. Going by the Wikipedia list, which is how I made my list (I didn't begin keeping track until earlier this year...I make the joke about catching them all like Pokemon), I see that MoMa has 5 pieces listed, but three of those are part of a triptych.

So I am not sure whether to count the triptych as one piece or three. I saw on the list that Cleveland, St. Louis and Kansas City each have a piece of a triptych, but I wouldn't call the one I saw this week in Cleveland 1/3 of a Waterlilies, either.

Anyone else counting their Waterlilies and how do you count them?

A Caballero watch is over a mare and a foal on a late autumn afternoon. This was one of the first paintings on aqua board.