Experience Journaling – Day 16 – Texture

Day 16 – A Watercolorist’s Journal

Paint a shape with clean water. Load your brush with color and touch it down. Watch it flow in little rivers of its own choosing, seeking out its boundaries. Work fast, before the shape dries. Move with intuition. Do not despair the puddles; they will dry. The wavy paper will flatten. Let your colors bleed and burst, seep, swirl, and soften into each other. Let the surface evoke a hide tough as leather, creased and scarred, pocked, chaffed, and mottled. But also let bloom there murky pools, light filtered through water, suspended clouds of interstellar dust. Let there be whole galaxies in the dimpled skin of this whale. And when it has all dried, come back. Give him a watchful eye that tells you he knows it all, and more.