On the rough

Lovely big cumulus clouds wafting through Virginia today. These were painted facing east at about 2 pm with the wind lightly blowing southeast.


This watercolor is painted on Arches rough watercolor block. If you look at the blue sky above the middle white cloud you can see some characteristic puddling of the blue pigment in a kind of pebbled texture. Also a feature of painting on rough paper is the broken brush stroke where the brush hair bounces over the uneven surface. An example of this is in the  edge of the right-most white cloud on the border of the blue sky.