Day 22 : #30x30DirectWatercolor2019 : Hurricane Season

“Hurricane Season”, 18×18″ watercolor on paper

Here I am again, returning to my very first sketch.

Look how much you can get out of the same bit of inspiration. I felt like I hadn’t done a good enough job at the blackness  – so I went back.

These drips are not *entirely* intentional. But on the other hand, I don’t mind either. I mean, they are intentional in the sense that I know they will happen – if I soak the paper and paint at an angle. I enjoy learning to live with what the water does.

The end result, I feel looks like a massive waterspout. I like it.

I left it. I could see many others not liking the results. But what are you going to do? You can’t have a personal vision without doing things some people won’t like.

The sky, by the way, is a huge wasabi-wash of Daniel Smith’s Graphite Grey. (Tinted with a few random things).

This is a color that isn’t much good for anything in the natural world. Maybe certain kinds of rocks. A stone beach if you could find one. I do believe I used it in my parking garage paintings last year. It does have a unique velvety texture that I haven’t seen in any other pigments I’ve tried.