A brush with Watercolours
Pardon the pun, but I couldnt resist!
I always thought that watercolours were the realm of the ‘experts’, who alone were keepers of the deep, dark secrets of watercolours. Probably because all my past attempts at watercolours were pretty well disastrous.
I think, perhaps, it might have been the subject matter I was trying to paint, as much as the medium. I am much more comfortable painting small corners of the world, rather than big sweeping landscapes, and most books on the subject (that I had, anyway) tended more to the latter.
Of course, I have a much better understanding of colour theory than I did back then and no longer try to do things like shade objects by adding black to the colour!
