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David Rankin, Master Watercolor Artist and Teacher, has created a line of clothing that reflects his view of painting. David writes on his website: "Real Artists use Watercolor". I use this rather humorous but provocative line as an opening statement in many of my lectures to make a point. For about 300 years there has been a pervasive stereotype that watercolor is somehow intrinsically inferior to such mediums as oils. And I for one want this mistaken idea corrected. In oils and acrylics an artist can simply keep painting right over their mistakes 1000 times until they finally get it right. But in watercolor we actually have to know what we're doing from the beginning! Oils are messy & stinky, require turpentine & varnish, are hard to clean up, and crack after 100 years or so. Acrylics dry chalky and plastic-like. And if they dry on your brushes... toss'um. But watercolors are elegant, easily transportable, clean up without turpentine, don't smell, and allow artists the fastest most wonderful method for actualizing inspiration! If you had an expensive mechanic work on your car... would you want one who simply took it apart and looked around until he found the problem? Or would you want one who actually knew what they were doing from the beginning? Watercolor is by far... the most popular and widely used artistic medium in the world. If you Google the word "watercolor" you'll get nearly 2,000,000 hits! If you try "Oils" or "Acrylics" you'll have a hard time finding 500,000! In fact, there are more mediocre watercolor painters than there are oil & acrylic painters... combined! The fact is that "Watercolor Rules!" And when artists finally do travel to Mars... it'll be watercolor painters who'll go first... because they're going to find water on Mars long before they find... Turpentine!
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