Painting on aquabord is a refreshing and gratifying experience. Especially painting with watercolors. The one aspect of the material I enjoy most, when the colors are blended correctly, are the brilliant hues you get with every painting. I enjoy lifting, pulling, blotting, and moving the paint and water across the surface of the panel to get just the feeling you want in a work of art. Painting on aquabord is like painting on paper with a few exceptions: It dries faster than paper; the colors have a little more punch; you can paint without stretching paper; you can lift pigment a lot easier; and of course, you can frame it without glass using the proper preservation spray. When I started painting with the medium about 7 years ago, I wasn’t sure how I would take to it. But through the years, it has become one of my favorite surfaces to paint on. When I feel like expressing myself in a vibrant and artistic manner, a layer of watercolor on aquabord can create just the right emotion. The next time you feel the adrenaline pumping to create something special – find your favorite hide away – a secret garden, and retreat with a brush, watercolor paint, an easel, a panel of aquabord – and FEEL the experience!

Every painting I’ve been fortunate to create has enlightened me about something. Either the medium I’m using, the painting surface, the brushes, the theme, myself or the lovely people that view them. Over the years, I have come to embrace this experience, realizing that the application is a marvelous part of the process. Just painting can be enjoyable, but the feeling you get when the paint, the environment and the process speaks to you is unparalleled–unraveling the many questions that surface when painting in a certain medium, or trying to communicate a subject. I am confident that when you allow this process to occur, not only does your eye mature, but you grow as well.