Playing with Watercolor

I received some new paint colors this week and it’s time to see what they look like. So I did a little free exploration.

Olive green and burnt umber have been added to my palette.

I splashed them on Stonehenge 100% cotton paper with ultramarine blue, quinacridone red, quinacridone gold, and alizarin crimson. While still wet I worked in some metallic gold.

Here I am trying out a new brush. It is a 1/4 inch dagger, very soft, and shaped like a, well, a dagger.

The paper was first splashed with water, causing the lines to break up and run down the paper. I pulled the brush through the center of the curves to carry the blue all the way down. After the paper dried, I added a few lines with extra-fine Micron pens.

Wonder what I will do tomorrow?