the power of suggestion

This is the sort of thing that excites me.

I look at this [excerpted from a Hazel Soan watercolour] and find it rather indecipherable:



But when it's put in context, it becomes very easy to make out what it is:



I love that power of art to suggest and evoke. It almost makes my usual attempts to delineate everything, sharply and definitely, feel like a brute force approach to art. My sutff doesn't have the same delicate magic of this sort of impressionism. But maybe this is something I can learn to incorporate and make good use of. We shall see.