Watercolor Hearts

i am taking a watercolor painting class during this my last semester. i will tell you what i learned this past wednesday, 01-31-2007.

When the paint dries you can still apply additional washes and glazes over it. Yet, each next layer of color is always influenced by the previous. The watercolor pigments are delicate, always allowing light to pass through them, always reflecting even in the past colors. The previous colors are the past of the painting.

The past always fogs over the mornings in the future of the painting, the new colors, and even in our lives. You can escape into the present or the future, but the events of the past may always color the light you reflect.

The hurts, the joys, the wishes and fears of the past remain on the malleable paper canvas of our minds, and our hearts. But i also learned that the colors can be removed.

You apply more water and a little scrubbing with the brush removes the paint. The paper may become a little more “landscaped,” textured. So, there’s always a chance for the future to be become a texture of renewed hopes and bright colors.