Welcome to the rabbit hole of watercolor paint

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So...this starts a year ago April. I am primarily a sculptor so my painting and sketching were getting rusty. I inflicted a self-challenge that I would paint 100 faces or pieces of faces in watercolor or gouache. And if not painting do a sketch every day! 

I hit face #100 and felt I had not learned enough about this medium. Not just the techniques but the paint, why was my constraint question. 
Down the rabbit hole I went, all things were new, odd, thrilling, beautiful and frighting. 
It all pointed to the pigment. I understand binders, and paper and brushes from all my other disciplines. Color theory is not a foreign country. Additive color theory in transparencies I am acquainted with. But when yellow and blue did not make green, I was stumped. In a flash, it hit me like a flamingo in the face.....the pigments ...I need to know more. Books, videos even a class at Kremer Pigments I finally have a grasp on it. 
And a small line of artist-grade watercolor paints, most single pigment all the best. Made for Artist. Available on Etsy
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