Water colors are incredible.
You take pure paper and add color to it while letting the original paper shine through instead of covering it. And you literally have to since that paper is the lightest tint that you'll have and I think that's the hard part. In most other mediums it's relatively easy to back track and cover up a mistake or to add white.
As if not being able to cover up mistakes isn't hard enough, water colors are alive, the paint moves and I think that's what fascinates me. It's so mesmerizing to trail a loaded brush over a page and watch the color trail and bleed out of its own accord. It's downright hypnotic to watch the pigment swirl around when you dip the brush in a trail of water.
My favorite part of the attached photo is the hat because it lets so much of the original white of the paper shine through while still making the hat 3D. I also really love the soft tones that were used whick convinces the onlooker that this hat is the softest thing in the world.
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