Sojourney – Watercolour stories
What is a watercolour?
Some lines, some colours on paper?
Perhaps.
But the paper, the colour, the brush – each has a story.
The artist, the subject, the moment in time.
Each bring a small part to a slice of history.
Perhaps this slice is just a backwater to the grand flow of events in the world.
But it is a story none-the-less.
And here are some of my watercolour stories:
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