This month I would like to give credit to two talented friends of mine. First, Graham Scholes as teacher and mentor, and second to Denyse Monier as Watercolourist and poet.
Many students have a tendency to overwork a painting and eventually spoil it.
This is quite often a problem when you are just feeling your way into the medium of watercoour. As you develop your skills an style, stopping at the right time will become a gut feeling. When I start to put down the medium darks and final darks, I constantly squint or step badk to evaluate the overall painting. Our personality comes out in paintings and is partly revealed in the amount of detail defined. It is important, however, to resist the temptation to overdo it.