Just Imagining

I imagine her in a black or dark blue dress. She sits cuddled up on the sofa. Elegant, beautiful and enjoying herself. Her knight is fetching her a drink, but taking a little too long - as he is waiting for some small sign of her interest in dancing through the night.

Read up on water colors in Jeanne Dobie's eminent "Making Color Sing". She makes it straight forward and it seems simple, until you actually try it. Water color is so demanding, and yet that is the fun of it: making those colors fresh and to make them sing! Here a place with warm and cold, wet-in-wet, opaque and transparent colors.