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Watercolor: Water/Pigment/Alcohol Drops vs Wet-on-wet

Sunday, June 21, 2026

By just quickly mushing a bunch of colors together while everything is still wet you can get a pretty impressive little abstract waterolor painting, like those above.

...or you can try adding in drops of rubbing alcohol or water while the paint is still a bit wet, to see how that moves around the pigment.

And then there's the same technique, but dropping in pigment instead, and letting the watercolors mesh together on their own. Letting go of control, letting the pigments do their thing!

Watercolor: Willa Wanders Watercolor for Relaxation

Friday, June 19, 2026

I returned from The France trip needing to PAINT. Not that I'm particularly good at painting, but it turns out...watercolor is a fairly forgiveable, productive skill. So I started with Walla Wanders Watercolor for Relaxation Class and did a lesson or two per day.

The first several paint practices are playing around with water, salt, pigment. Just learning the medium.

With very minimal skill and time spent practicing, you can pretty quickly see some beautiful things be created!

France Trip: Palazzo dei Normanni in Palermo, Italy

Friday, June 12, 2026

An absolute highlight of the Hop On / Hop Off bus of Palermo, Italy was my stop at the Palazzo dei Normanni (Norman Palace). Absolutely stunning interiors with lovely exterior tropical gardens!

And this wraps up my two-month long Europe (mostly France, but a little Zurich and Palermo) trip!

France Trip: More Palermo, Italy

Thursday, June 11, 2026

For lack of better planning, I spent my last free day in Palermo on the Hop On / Hop Off Bus, seeing the sites, poking around, and doing Palermo things.