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The watercolour painting titled “Deer Dreams” is subject matter that was gathered during boat travel in Ontario.  The glimpse of a graceful doe coming to the shoreline for water was combined with the layering of forest trees in my preliminary pencil sketch.  A colourful, dream-like, enchanting quality was what I planned for this composition.   I started with mixing some bold, warm colours and laid down a “juicy” underpainting. Using a water-colour technique called wet-into-wet which refers to water-colour paper saturated with water and paint applied to run and blend.   After the underpainting dried, I shaped the forest trees...