Floating into the new year with style I got to use my new Windsor Newton series 7 sable brushes - it really is amazing that they make a difference in the amount of paint they carry and precision of the points. I used different sized brushes for the different effects, the numbers I have being 00, 2, 4 and 6. Having the extra paint in the brush let me do the seamless three-toned wash in the sky in the background, and then the different sized seed pods floating around. The last detail I threw in was the skyline at the bottom, I was going to leave that out because of Chinese art which typically leaves the open space, but then I put the detail in, and kind of regretted it at first. But now I really like the look of it, it kind of looks like New York's east river with some dandelion seeds floating around.
5 x 7" hot press, Watercolour, Jan. 2019
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