Artists use many different techniques to achieve the same goal. We are probably all familiar with Bev Doolittle’s "Pintos" watercolor painting, where she shows a group of pinto horses (brown and white) at the foot of a rocky snow covered rock formation. The rocks and snow reveal much more than rocks and snow. And so we have the 2nd story: What does this mean? It’s obviously more than an illusionary trick of the eye. We could interpret Bev’s painting to mean many things....forms in nature repeat themselves...there is a great majesty we can only be in awe of as observers of nature......the past is never lost, but is carried on with the living. The symbolic meaning is up to you. What is wonderful about this art is that it asks questions that we the viewer, are challenged to answer. It does not give us answers but only asks the questions.
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