So in continuing with my Rory mashups tonight I give you Dragon Solo, or Rory Solo… either way, it’s Rory as Han Solo, I think he makes a great rogue smuggler.  This was done with water colors (Ink for my signature) and I’m rather pleased how it turned out.

Last week Opopanax posted a picture of her watercolors and I thought it was nifty, so I made a mental note to do the same the next time I painted because I thought it was really nifty.

As you can see I paint with watercolors in tubes, not the solid dry watercolors that most people think of when they think of watercolors.  There isn’t anything wrong with tubes or with solids, it’s a personal preference.  I think I use the tubes because when I learned watercolors (other than the plop water on the crayola set we all did when we were little) it was with tubes.  I was amazed at how much control I had with watercolors and I don’t know if its the kind I use, or just how I was taught (thanks Mrs. Jones).

You can also see my brushes, with watercolor you don’t (well I don’t) use a lot of brushes like you might when painting in oils, essentially you just change in size.  I like my bamboo bursh there on the far left.  This is originally for painting in ink, a technique that is used in asian scrolls (I love that too, lots of fun with that) but this is perfect for a good watercolor wash brush.  Next there is that tell tale crayola watercolor brush, the cheapo plastic ones.  Yeah, this is my favorite brush for watercolors, it tapers the best and doesn’t lose hairs like so many can.  Some of the more expensive brushes tend to not perform as well and others, are just so darned expensive.  On the far right there is a skinny detail brush, for getting in the cracks and crevices.  In the center, that’s a calligraphy pen.  I got the idea from Aurora Lee, instead of signing with paint I started just inking my signature on these watercolors, I think it comes out much nicer and it reminds me of bamboo ink painting :)