A New Painting

 I picked up my paints for the first time since painting the bookmark for Laura at the end of October. I had been watching tutorials over that 2 months and had some idea of what I wanted to paint, but I didn't expect to come up with the process that I did. I wet the entire paper and did the background with the idea of distant hills and then went back and dabbed in the trees. I should add that the texture was added by dropping salt onto the drying watercolour. I really like how it turned out.




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