At the Queeny House again. It was painted quickly. I wish I had taken better care on the house and it's outline. Every painting has parts I wish were better....
Here is my watercolor palette. It was first a kit of pan colors, but I removed them and added the paints I prefer, which are tube watercolors from M. Graham Co. I like their paints tremendously. A big benefit is that they do not dry up in the palette, which means there is no need to dig into the color with the brush....wearing out the point on the brush! The paint contains honey! Some colors I'm sure I will always use, but others are experiments.
This is Friday midday, June 12. This is the beginning of summer heat and humidity. I'll have to get used to it. It becomes bearable once we get out of the sun and off of pavement. Diane is with me, knitting.
I'm trying to use strong color in the center of focus, and weaker color surrounding. It is easier said than done.
The more often I paint, the less the rejects hurt.
This is my first painting on the left-over Arches 300 lb. paper from my first attempt at watercolor in the mid-eighties! I have been afraid to waste heavy, expensive paper!
But it surely cost far less in the eighties!
For encouragement to paint regularly, I follow Roos Schuring, an oil plein air artist in the Netherlands.
