From now on I am going to do a new feature called “Medium of the Month” where I choose a new medium each month and explore it.  Each Wednesday I will update on my research, examples from other artists, my own explorations with the medium, and finally my process through creating a work of art.  This month is going to be all about watercolor!  We’ll see how this goes… =)

I found this great site, with watercolor paintings and examples and tons of tutorials, and immediately started looking through all of these different processes.  I think I am most excited to try the alcohol and plastic wrap methods, but we’ll see how they actually turn out!  I don’t know exactly what I am planning to do yet (I’ll share my sketches and ideas next week) so I think first I need to just play around and see how these different watercolor techniques work for me.

I love how unpredictable they seem to be…  there is some element of control but for the most part it looks like the final product is always a surprise.

Know how the masters created their work, but don’t fall into the conventions they used. They made their language. You make yours. – R. Henri

This is a painting by Ann DeLaurentis which I found at Artists’ Network.  Beautiful, right?  She says that the way she paints imitates the way she lives and partakes in certain activities, and that “the sort of painting I do is expressive, but takes intense control at the same time.”  It’s always interesting to hear artists talk about their process, and I thought this was fitting since the techniques I’m planning to use are both precise and uncontrollable.

Okay time to get started, I’ll post next week with what I’ve come up with!  =)