Another holiday of painting. It feels good to be active being creative. Today has been calm and I found time to paint the view of the lake Bodensee in Germany. While on holidays I don’t really have any way of editing photos so here’s a few progress shots again:
My masking fluid came in handy today, to reserve the space for the boats. It gave me the freedom to play freely, splashing water and color everywhere to paint the sky and the lake waters without worrying about keeping the space for the boats clean. You see it as a pale green color on those two first shots.
Masking fluid however don’t remove easily on my cheap crappy paper which was never intended for watercolor. In fact I ended up removing masking fluid + the upper layer of paper. 
With a bit of patching up errors and destroyed paper I ended up with a version I quite liked after all.
In all this I find it great fun to push the papers limits – sometimes what looks like errors can be turned into funny effects. Sometimes errors are just that: Completely irreversable blunders that destoys a painting 😀 For the longest time the sky in this painting looked like the last option of the two, but somehow, using a piece of paper towel lifting off color, in the end things worked out 🙂 I have been lucky two days in a row now ending up with something I like.
