1 Parrots, 2011
Watercolor with pencil
3 × 6½ in. (8 × 17 cm)
What Julia Denos loves most about watercolor is that it is an unforgiving medium. According to Denos, watercolor offers “a special honesty, because you can’t hide any mark. Your humanity is in plain view. Even if you learn to tame it, it will always be a wild animal—it ultimately does what it wants to, no matter what substrate you choose or how many lessons you take. So you just have to accept this and play. That’s what’s so freeing about it! When you are using watercolor and you make a ‘mistake,’ there really is no going back. You can only start over or learn to coax the mistake into something beautiful. I try to always choose the latter.”
1 Parrots, 2011
Watercolor with pencil
3 × 6½ in. (8 × 17 cm)
6 Beet, 2011
Watercolor with pencil
7 × 11 in. (18 × 28 cm)
7 Untitled, 2012
Watercolor with pencil
7½ × 7½ in. (19 × 19 cm)
8 Untitled, 2012
Watercolor with crayon
10 × 4 in. (25 × 10 cm)
9 Persimmon, 2012
Watercolor
9 × 10 in. (23 × 25 cm)
10 Phthalo Blue, 2012
Watercolor
9 × 10 in. (23 × 25 cm)
