At the spring pasture 2017

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this gorgeous painting called ‘At the spring pasture’ with watercolors, and the way he uses them is super interesting to me, because it’s all about the process. The way Krupa plays with texture, color, and surface is really poetic. Look at how the watery grays and blues bleed into each other, creating this hazy, dreamlike effect. See the way he suggests the horse's muscles and bone structure with just a few strokes of the brush? It’s all so light and airy, like the memory of a horse rather than a literal depiction. There is one dark patch under the horse's belly, almost like a shadow, that anchors the whole piece and gives it depth. It reminds me a little of some of the early watercolor studies of someone like Kandinsky, but with its own unique energy and vision. It shows us that art is not about having all the answers but about embracing the beauty of ambiguity.