Building a Watercolor Painting

I've taken up art.  I've decided I'm gonna back off on building/cutting/modifying objects for a while, except for the LCD monitor I'm going to attempt fixing in my next post. So armed with some supplies from the local art stores and a 1978 edition of The Watercolor Painting Book from the local library, I decided to do my own rendition of "Demonstration 10.  Winter Landscape".

That's it.  I call it "Early Snow" since I used way too much green in there.

Here's my Reeves paints, which I got in a set obviously.  The individual tubes are marked for color fastness and one or two are not excellent, just good.  A fact I will have to remember if I ever embark on a paint I anticipate keeping.  And still, even with 18 tubes of paint, all the instructions call for colors I don't actually have.  So I make it up.

Here's the paper.  Commonly available Strathmore, cut into quarter sheets to conserve badness.  There's enough bad art in the world and I don't want to create too much at a time.

Here's a nice shot of my brushes.  Nice because in focus.  I use them indiscriminately.  I think I need one called a "rigger", though, for fine lines (originally rigging on ships, so I hear).

And finally during cleanup, my palette.  The colors were pretty in the water, but don't show as well in the photo - nothing does, because my camera sucks.  I cleaned the palette out completely because I'd crapped up all the little color blobs so thoroughly that not one of them was uncontaminated with barf gray.

Building art is fun.  I'm going to do it again.