Granulation is one of the properties unique to watercolour paints. It means that the pigments will form small clumps resulting in a textured appearance. Using rough press or cold press paper accentuates the effect due to the undulating surface of the paper. In the painting, you can see the granulation clearly in the sky and some of the shadowed-areas due to the use of cerulean blue. Water-painters tend to be infatuated with granulation due its magical appearance during the painting process. By the way, I am calling the act of painting with watercolour paints, 'water painting' as part of my effort to rebrand the name. Thus, a painter who uses watercolour paint, is a water-painter. I am sure this will catch on eventually! If there is oil painting, and acrylic painting, then it stands to reason there should be water painting.
Flying Kites, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, 2017 (No. 1499a)
This was on the back of the other painting. It is a totemic collage of doodles with a cool colour scheme. This painting contains many pigments that I recently stopped using including phthalo blue shade (PG7) french ultramarine (PB29), cerulean blue (PB35), and alizarin crimson (PR83). It is a window into somewhere.
Hilt Structure and Baloon, watercolour 8 x 10" cold press, 2017 (No. 1499b)
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