I am a poet/painter with four prize-winning poetry books, one of which I illustrated: CAUSING A STIR: THE SECRET LIVES & LOVES OF KITCHEN UTENSILS (winner of a 2009 IPPY in the Gift Book Category). This is what I love about painting in watercolor:Water gets away from you. It has its own song to sing, and so the watercolor painter becomes, first of all, a listener. Water has its own persistent, rock-melting ways, as the Taoists call it: the Watercourse Way. And so the watercolorist must allow the water in her body to run together with the water on her...more
