Nita Engle (American, 1925-2019) was a watercolorist who mixed wild spontaneity with a managed focus.
In her guide “Find out how to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself,” she says: “My methodology of working consists of two elements: a wild, spontaneous section, by which I purpose to create a subject of texture that can give the phantasm of, say, water, a daisy subject, bushes, or no matter; and a realism section, by which I choose small areas, often within the foreground, and add cautious element so the viewer’s eye will learn the remaining as actuality.”
“Within the first section I apply the water and paint and comply with it wherever it leads with no censoring….After the paint is dry, the considering section begins.”
E-book: “Find out how to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself” by Nita Engle