Geranium Series No.1

A more loose painting on a 9 by 10 inches watercolor paper using Bienfang watercolor pens. These watercolor pens are mainly used in calligraphy and scrapbooking – the kind of pens with brush at one end and you can squeeze the body to pump out the paint. I dampened the whole paper with water at first under running water; then I dripped the green paint at the lower part of the paper at several spots. Since it was wet-on-wet, the paint spread everywhich way. I filled in the gaps in between the blobs of spreading paint with a ¾ inch flat brush. I lifted off excess paint using a damp brush – see the light areas where the leaves are. For the geranium blossoms, I dripped red paint at three spots and allowed the paint to spread on its own. Again, I lifted off excess red paint using a damp brush. When both the red and the green areas had dried up but still slightly damp, I squiggled in the details of the petals and the leaves using the brush tip. When the paper was almost dry, I painted in the buds and stems. In this painting, I used only two colors – red and green!