Huh, looking at this painting in natural light the next day, the colors (blues especially) aren't as dull as I though. I still want to play around with the watercolor pencils to see if I can get them to work better. They dried super fast so a water pen brush might work better than a regular one for wetting them.
Can we just talk? Talk about where we’re going before we get lost?
Reference Photo
So this is another version of this. This one is on Hahnemuhle Anniversary Watercolor Paper. I definitely like the way the colors look on this paper more than the Strathmore 400. It's not my best, but it's not bad.