Watercolours
Watercolor is a delicate art, where creativity and emotion are closely linked to knowledge of the tools used: water, pigments, paper and brushes.
There's no catching up if you make a mistake. Two minutes before finishing a watercolour, an accident can happen and spoil the final result.
Einstein is credited with the following quote: "Genius is 90% work".
What is work in watercolour painting? It's about practicing over and over again, knowing by heart the reactions of pigments more or less mixed with water on paper, knowing which brush to use for which effect, knowing which mix of colors will match the color of the sky in front of you to reproduce it as faithfully as possible.
Watercolour painting is all about turning knowledge into reflexes. It's forgetting about technique and mastering it to convey emotion.
It's like a pianist who no longer looks at the position of his fingers while playing, but concentrates instead on his playing and the feelings he wants to share with his audience.
There's another element that you also have to try and master, and it's not one of the simplest, because there's no instruction manual for it: the structure of the painting.
It's a highly subjective element, but it serves to convey (or not) to the viewer the fragile notion of harmony.
Why is a work of art beautiful? Why does it provoke admiration, rejection or even indifference?
While it's very difficult to answer these questions, the history of painting can give us some clues and make us think. The history of painting, but also the history of measurements used by men over the centuries.