Painting with watercolors has only been a joy to me for the last two years, but it has changed my life. I love working with this medium more than any other except linoleum block prints (because of the variety of things you can do) and a good pencil (first love). I have not yet used another kind of paint that I have an affinity for. It was a torture to learn how to use them though. I pushed myself and pushed myself to figure out this damned stuff... I was using it for my final project in a drawing and painting class in high school, and I got it. I really got it. Now... well... Here are some of the present results of my appreciation for the complexities of this medium.
This first painting I did on the coldest day of the year so far... Out SIDE! I know... I was crazy... We all understand the truth in that. I had to learn how to overcome the problem of the water in my brushes freezing. It did create some interesting effects in the fallen-over grasses. I was outside for around forty-five minutes.
This next painting was done in about nine hours to a still life in my watercolor painting class.
This one is an abstraction of a portion of the previous painting. It took over twenty-six hours. The spikes alone took twenty of those hours.
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