This is a water colour rendering for a client from earlier this Spring. I don’t find myself doing too much work in “real” mediums like water colour or oils anymore. Timelines and budgets have dictated other solutions. I must say though, I’ve been doing water colours for over 15 years now and I still love the smell released from Arches paper when water or wet pigment is applied. Notice how I call it a “smell”, it isn’t a nice fragrance… I think you’d need to be a watercolorist to appreciate it. At any rate, this is the ONLY paper worth using. 100% acid free and archival. This lovely paper has been been made in the Arches Mill in Lorraine France since 1492, more history can be found here on their website.
A detail showing the wonderful glowing character of transparent mediums on Arches paper.
