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"This small watercolor was created from a photo of my friend Mike taken by his wife Debra. To emphasize the cool temperature of the scene itself I selected a cool blue as the prominent color. The background was heavily textured using various watercolor techniques, and, along with the warm skin tones, helped keep the focus on Mike’s face.

By creating this painting on a white clay-coated Aquabord panel I was able to utilize many of the unique characteristics of this surface, including lifting color with sharp objects as well as re-wetting the already painted areas to expose the white surface once again."