materials
You can try to explain why you choose watercolor. Why do you prefer those tubes with their promising names, Ultramarine, Cadmium Yellow, Burnt Sienna, over the certainty of oil or the predictability of acrylic? But the true reason lies deeper, in something you only understand once you’ve experienced it time and again.
I choose my paper as one chooses a conversation partner. It must be able to say something back.
When the paper warps slightly from the water, that is when something happens. Then you see that it is alive, that it participates in what is coming into being.
About the work shown on this website:
Dimensions: 56 x 76 cm (22 x 30 inch) and 14.8 x 21 cm (5.8 x 8.3 inch); Paper: Canson Heritage 640g; Fabriano Artistico GG Traditional 640g; Hahnemühle tinted watercolor A5; Paint & Pencils: Winsor & Newton Professional watercolors; Winsor & Newton Studio Collection watercolor pencils; Brushes: Da Vinci Watercolor brushes; Inks & Tools: Talens Indian Ink, Leonardt Dip Nibs, Bruynzeel graphite pencils; Van Bleiswijck acrylics; Uni Pin Fine Line pens black, the Sailor 1911 L fountain pen, Jacquard Dorland's wax.