Day two hundred and fifty: When I was a kid, around fifth grade or so, watercolors were my favorite way to paint. When I started this blog, and began using the Corel Painter 11, it was one of the first “brush categories” I tested. And I hated it. The colors diffused all over in a big, unwieldy mess. I realized that the program would emulate a wide variety of effects depending on saturation of water and pigment, the brush size and type, and dozens of other variables. At the time, it was too much to digest, and so I turned primarily to pencil and oil. Today, a watercolor of fish by Adolf Dehn (1895-1968, born in Minnesota) suddenly inspired me to try the medium again. The little study you see here isn’t much like Dehn’s, except perhaps in tone, but it gave me a wonderful opportunity to play with the water and the paints, and just see what might happen.
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