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Weary of painting content, I have decided to explore what watercolor will do if allowed a little freedom to be itself. I splashed this paper with blobs and spatters of water. It is a compliant sort of paper – Strathmore Aquarius – and has the amazing quality of flattening itself out after you have painted on it, because it is a cotton and synthetic blend. Or almost flattening itself out, as you can see from the photo. I did wet it to start with, but used no tape for the edges. Then I floated bits of color into the wet areas and let the color go where it wanted to. I proceeded to add more water, more color, letting the whole thing take shape. I especially like where the edges of the blobs dry first and suck more color into themselves. I stopped early on this one so that I didn’t ruin whatever I thought was good about it with too much fussing.