The Blue House

9"x13.5" on 12"x16" cold press watercolor paper 

I had a chance to babysit my niece's 5 cats up up in Lake Arrowhead. I took my watercolors instead of oils. It's been a while since I touched watercolor. Very curious about how it gonna translate recent ideas into watercolors, been workin with oils so quite uncertain about transition. While start working this piece, immediately felt something isn't right. First I can't get colors the way I want to, value changes like the weather in the mountains after paints are dried. Make the story short I was pulling my hair out. Waite a minute, I realized that I had to think in terms of watercolor, forgot about nature of watercolor. You can't control not much, then my subconscious whispered to me ....Just let watercolor paint for you. After that I enjoyed making shapes and transparency according to my intuition.

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