Book Bottle c. 1937

Yolande Delasser created this watercolor on paper, "Book Bottle", and it's just so cool. You can see how the painting has come into being, shifting and emerging through intuition. I’m really feeling for Delasser, imagining what it might have been like to create this. The paint looks thin but there are a lot of layers and different tones. There's brown, green and red that really makes the book-bottle pop. Look how the way she’s painted the front cover suggests a kind of wood grain. The painting seems to be about the pleasure of surfaces, of the feel of a thing. Painters are in an ongoing conversation and exchange of ideas across time, inspiring one another’s creativity. Painting is a form of embodied expression which embraces ambiguity and uncertainty, allowing for multiple interpretations.