Watercolor Series
I began my experimentation in watercolor when I went to Blick a few weeks ago. I'd become fed up with acrylics and their fast-drying nature leaving so many unused paint globs and having to continually purchase replacement paint. As well, it created a time sensitive issue so that whenever I poured globs out I had to paint for the next hour and a half or risk losing about $4 worth of paint (slight exaggeration). At the time I didn't know the difference between tubes and pans and purchased the cheapest option I found which was five tubes of Van Gogh watercolors: the primaries plus black and white. They were $5 each. I immediately set to work trying them out - on my walk home from Blick I stopped at the library and drew two and a half pages of a short comic about wandering around Portland. I loved that I was able to paint over my lines and still see what I considered interesting line work. I also liked how quickly the paint could be applied, how light I could make it, and how m