I painted several similar scenes last spring; only I used much more gouache. This one is on Shizen smooth watercolor paper. Although it is smoother than their rough paper, it still has enough texture to achieve translucent light in the part of the vase that has water. Something that pleases me about this sketch is the variety of levels of transparency.
Deliberate Sketching 
Perfect!!!
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I really love the section inside the vase. I feel like it’s an abstract composition in of itself.
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Thank you Claudia, your eye is so aligned to mine. That is my favorite part too, I think it encapsulates everything I love about gouache on black watercolor paper.
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Beautiful and I bet it was difficult to capture the different level of transparency. Thks
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