Part of the joy (sometimes frustration) with watercolour is that you never really know how your finished painting will end up looking, but that is part of the excitement. Also elements that were not planned in the beginning find their way into the painting mostly by accident. (I try to reduce planning time, only do a quick sketch on a separate paper and then draw directly on the paper. Tracing is too time consuming I find!). You learn new things as you go along... learning by doing is what I realised after having spent too many years reading books and looking for inspiration. What became clear with this one is that blues are not reacting very well to glazing, and unfortunately read somewhere that it applies to all blues. Perhaps intensify them more till next time and try with only 1-2 washes, so this was the lesson learned this time. Also fun to work with shapes, and a mixture of abstarct and detailed.
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