On the previous painting – the Betjeman statue – I used
my last piece of proper watercolour paper. I ordered a new pad from Amazon, but
it had not arrived by the time I wanted to start, so I took a gamble. I used a
piece of ordinary 150 gsm sketching paper. It worked out better than I hoped, for I know that the colours do look a
bit muted on this sort of paper. The North American bison is a really
interesting animal. Extensive hunting and slaughter of the bison population of
the USA meant that a population numbering tens of millions in 1800 had dwindled
to under 1100 by 1890. Since then efforts of conservationists have been
outstandingly successful. There are estimated 150,000 bison today and they are
no longer on the endangered list.
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