Lessons learned from watercolor

Five timeless reminders about art and creating

I recently took a watercolor class.

The last time I seriously painted was in college, during one of the prerequisite classes for my design degree.

I consider myself a moderately skilled artiste. But gosh, watercolor is hard. It doesn’t behave the way you expect it to. It bleeds, it blends, it swirls. It’s hard to layer—basically impossible to layer unle…