Original artwork description:

This original watercolor painting is a part of my experience of traveling through the Caucasus mountains. I pictured a foggy morning after the rain. In the glare of the rising sun the contours of the mountain peaks are no different from the clouds. Everything changes very quickly, fog flows like water. Sometimes sunlight takes the shape of a shepherd or his horses from the fog.

We all have our off days. I respect my failures and failings, because they help me improve. But what I'm really sorry about is the paper.

And I have strong reasons for this:
- Cotton cultivation causes soil degradation and erosion as well as loss of forest area and other habitat.
- Cotton production is responsible for the emission of 220 million tons of CO2 annually.
- It takes 10,000 liters of water to produce 1 kilo of cotton, meaning it takes about 1,276 liters to make 1 Full Imperial size watercolor paper sheet.

Even the most responsible production of watercolor paper is harmful to the environment.

So I try to be very economical with the watercolor paper.
I make postcards on the little pieces of paper that I left behind when I cut the roll for my paintings and recycle the smallest pieces. And when a painting on a dense paper fails, I just flip the sheet and paint on the other side. So some of my paintings on the backside contain images that I found unsuccessful. I enclose a picture of the artwork back in this case.

Materials used:

Cotton paper 300g, professional watercolor

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