Mono Lake Magic

Here is #4 of my dragon series.  This dragon is a lot more subtle than the last, and its presence is like a signature on the painting, a way to possess this landscape artistically.

Mono Lake Magic. 16x22 watercolor. SOLD.

I find that my process differs from that of most watercolorists. It might even be hard to identify my paintings as watercolors sometimes.  I can read and learn about color theory and color application, but instead of planning how my colors will work and putting down clear, glowing layers of pure pigment, I tend to put down many many layers, and scrub them off, and try again.  I can't get it right the first time, but fortunately I have some instinct that tells me when it's wrong, and to keep working on it. So my watercolor paintings are textured, worked, sometimes dense, sometimes opaque.  That's me.