Today’s watercolor experiment:

As carefully as one meters minuscule amounts of paint for testing (see Blues Chart), there is always some left over.  I hate wasting unused paint so I decided to use my left over blues in today’s experiment.

I used a dry brush for the initial wave of indigo blue, one of my favorite dark blues. I love using the edge of my new Japanese brush. Beneath this paint stroke, I used most of the other blue colors that I had. I surrounded some of the blue streaks with permanent rose. I also included a smattering of auerolin yellow, which became green against the blue background.

To bring some darker tonal values into the composition, I painted indanthrone blue around the edges. Surrounding that, I introduced cadmium orange, the only non-primary color in the composition.

Leftover Blues
9″x12″ 140# Cold Pressed Watercolor Block