Opening the Doors

If you made it here, then you are probably a wandering person online that jumps from curiosity to curiosity. I tend to do that too, but here is where you have landed because of a curious inkling to learn about watercolor. It's a thing that if you aren't careful, well... let's just see hmmm? So I am a female out in the middle of nowhere USA that got into watercolor because I came across some artwork I had done back in high school. Ahhh nostalgia. Back then the internet was dial up and the sound of it was like nails on a chalk board. What information you could get into was from libraries. So I stumbled out of high school into the real world and left behind the thing I really enjoyed. Then time came I rediscovered it and as I did, there was a whole new world. It was like plunging into the warmest lake on a sunny day. There are pigments, lightfastness, standards, brands, rules, and color mixing, and how to do x, y, z... it became an overload. There was a lot to one thing that I had such a narrow view on. One thing that I found was that there was a lot of things that I could do, but didn't understand them. So how do I understand it? I started down a journey and learned from a lot of discussions, reading and social media what to do and what not to do. This was a good and bad thing. There are some extremes to both sides of any pendulum and watercolor is no exception. There are those who hold the rules to their chest like the Ten Commandments and then there are those who believe in complete freedom and how dare you cite the rules. It was a scary place to discover myself as an artist and made watercolor all that more intimidating.

That's where this website came in. Why shouldn't I share the path I took? And then not just that, but the things I have discovered, where to go, resources, and let someone else take their path. The glory of the internet is the information it has. You can take the absolutes, or you can take the pieces and form your own puzzle. I find that puzzles, while they have their own rules, are a lot more freeing if you do them yourself, instead of someone else.