Hope

If you paint in watercolor the paper plays an important role. Usually I paint on Arches or Hahnemühle rough paper and got pretty used to the behaviour of the color on that paper. This time I tried to do a painting of the Greifswald harbour on a very smooth paper. I used Fabriano Artistico satine and immediately got problems with the behaviour of the color. You can not move the color on the paper like on a Arches, no dry brush strokes and so on. But nevertheless it was an interesting experience to get out of what you are used to. The picture was taken in Greifswald at the museum harbour with a boat called „Hoffnung“ (hope).  The size of the paper is 56x38cm.