water color painting: aqua flower

I was planning to have more black on this watercolor, but I like the way it turned out. Sometimes, what comes out looks much better than what I had in my head. I like blue, yet it sometimes hard to use blue with only few other colors. It's get either too cheesy, or tasteless. I wanted to use only black and blue, but decided to use different blue plus touch of violet. I like the nuance of the different blue in this.

watercolor portrait: freedom

I did some watercolor portraits of people with different skin tones. I think watercolor really work well when it comes to mixing and layering multiple colors. Instead of working with some earth color, I like working with unlikely colors. For example, I used purple and violet on this painting to create juicy skin tone. I still need to work on the skin part since it has too much white out part, but I guess I'm on the right track.