BLUE SERENITY
Watercolor - 8x10
One of the main reasons that I love painting with watercolors is that they allow you to be free and spontaneous. Applying all of that beautiful color to wet paper and watching the paints move and mingle of their own free will is a glorious sight. It can also be very scary and intimidating.
I have found that it helps to choose your colors before you start painting and to use a limited palette to avoid creating mud. Start with large, abstract shapes of color on the wet paper and continue to refine them each application of paint. Using negative painting to define the shapes after everything has dried is a wonderful way to create order out of chaos.
Above all else - have fun!
