Learning how to use watercolours: I have never used water colours before in any of my projects, and I wanted to experiment with them and try to develop some skills with the process. I decided to start by following tutorials rather than going of my own memories but I slo added my own spin on things so that I wasn't completely copying someone else and adding my own creativity into it. The first painting is of a stormy sea sky. The most difficult aspect of this process for me was getting the right pigment of the colours and tones that I used. I found it hard to make the colours darker and thought that the results where far too faint and washed out than what I would have liked. I do think that this is a good abstract and gestural piece of work though and I'm fairly happy with the result. The colours and tones seem to mix and swirl together to not only create a heavy and stormy sky, but also areas that are brighter and more joyful. I decided to add salt to areas of the sky w...