I’m sure the pet owners reading can relate. When you have a pet in the home, you better be prepared for the hair. It will coat the furniture, end up on your clothes and food. We jokingly refer to Sophie’s little gray hairs as the bay leaves we forgot to remove from the stew.
Another place I find hairs is in my studio. Sophie has been pretty needy these days, in one of her high-maintenance modes. She patiently watches me paint each day.
Well, I was working on a wash for a sky. A good sky either makes or breaks my landscape paintings. If I don’t get it right, the painting becomes scratch paper.
I wash getting ready to drop in some color when I noticed one of those little gray hairs in the middle of my sky. Apparently it was in my brush, unbeknownst to me. The wash was wet enough so I was able to get it out.
Which brings me to my watercolor tip for today. I’m sure that I don’t need to tell anyone to wash their brushes after painting. It comes naturally to us artists. My lesson with the cat hair taught me that I need to rinse my brushes before I start painting too to prevent Sophie hairs from ruining my washes.
It doesn’t take much time. Just fill a bowl with water and rinse and dry them before using because you know those hairs are everywhere.
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