Tonight I started my watercolor explorations with Heather Smith Jones' Water Paper Paint book, which I mentioned in an earlier blog post. The first project is Wet into Wet, where you paint rather wet circles and then paint additional circles with other colors inside - all while the paints are still wet.
I was definitely surprised at how some of the colors reacted with each other and how the paints in the pan can look so different on the paper. I really loved Intense Blue, Viridian Hue and Cadmium Yellow Hue...those three colors, coincidentally, go great together as well!
I originally didn't think the wet on wet process would be a style I was interested in, but it was actually pretty cool to watch the colors spread through one another - they looked like crystals growing! This would be a great technique for wrapping paper or simple cards.
