With a precious few weeks left before a trip to France, I'm continuing to produce watercolors on an almost daily basis. Here are 2 I did this past week. I am still playing with the palette of colors I want to use, as well as work on creating the right value structure to create the impression of light in my watercolor paintings. It's funny how at one moment I feel I'm beginning to grasp them, and at other times feel totally inept. In my oils, I hardly ever create a complete line drawing, instead getting some of the main lines in a composition, and then going in straight with masses of color to block in the picture. I haven't really found a way to do that with watercolor. I get antsy to start the painting part, and get in trouble with covering up lights I should have left. But the remedy I have found in any discipline is to just keep producing, practicing, and experimenting. Every failure gives you some lesson you can take away. There is always another piece of paper waiting for you.
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