I've been doing some water coloring.

It's hard to get used to the chaos of a brush but once you do there is a texture and feel that is just unbeatable. Especially in a digital age where the idea of  'hand made' is a marketable idea that can produced with computers and the masses never know the difference. So there's always the chase that the artist embraces. Finding the places where a computer can't go. Where an assembly line of sweat shop workers can't reproduce. Wood carving's have this. But the true nature isn't caught when photographed into 2d for sharing online. But the watercolor does. I've taken a close up of one of the pieces to hopefully remind you that there are artists who spend a lifetime perfecting what most people consider a lost art. Making things with an educated hand.
Also notice where there is paper balled up into little slugs. I didn't have any watercolor paper so i used regular drawing paper which is much thinner and can't take nearly as much water.
Watercolor close up by D.M.Allen

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