Process
Most watercolor painters work with a brush. I work primarily with pipettes, bowls of saturated pigment, granulation fluid, and gravity. Paint is poured onto cold press block paper, then the surface is tilted and rotated so the pigment finds its own path. Details are added with whatever serves the painting — a pipette tip, a small brush, a glass pen, sometimes even the edge of a paint bowl. No two paintings develop the same way — the process makes sure of that — and what ends up on the paper always surprises me a little. That surprise is what I'm after. Once the painting is complete and fully dry, I finish each piece with a hand-rubbed archival wax sealant to protect the surface for the long term.
Above: Pipette, brush, glass pen, and granulation marks.
Watch the process: