Jetsam

So! Jetsam: Part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is purposefully cast overboard or jettisoned to lighten the load that sinks or is washed ashore.

Many watercolorists I know will often first block out their painting with graphite pencil, paint over the graphite lines and then, when it's dry, laboriously erase all the pencil lines that show.

Years ago a fellow artist mentioned to me that he couldn't understand why they do that. He'd block out his painting using water color pencils, instead of graphite, and the lines would all blend in to the watercolors he brushed on with no need to erase them. Subsequently that's what I do if I want to line out a painting .

In this case however I used graphite pencil to add details to the watercolor after it was dry.

Hey, just playing around...

Watercolor and graphite on 140 pound cold pressed paper, 11 ½ by 12 ½ inches. 4 color palette; Colbalt blue, burnt sienna, hooker's green and aureoline yellow.