Before the storm original watercolor painting 11"x15" Painting

My name is Irina. I am self-taught artist and I am glad to share my love for art with you. Original watercolor and oil paintings are my favorite job! My artist journey is a self-taught way, one example of hard work, belief in what you do, and the ability not to give up, to work every day painstakingly and diligently. I live near the Baltic Sea and like to paint seascapes most of all in my small studio flat in Riga, Latvia. I also like to paint bright flowers and bouquets, landscapes, and seasons time of my home country. What's so special about my paintings? For watercolor paintings I use pure water from Latvia's Saltavots Spring, whose water brings my watercolors a fuzzy, velvety texture. Each of my watercolor paintings has the natural energy of crystal clear water. For the information: Latvia has amazing springs. The water from the icy Saltavots spring, located in a river valley one kilometer from the borders of Sigulda, is really so cold that it burns your lips and throat. You can safely drink water from it - the water has passed through natural filters and it is free of impurities. Latvia is one of the rare countries, where you can take clean drinking water directly from the ground, and the water sources are literally all over the country. Many of my pictures are drawn in the technique of watercolor painting wet-on-wet. I pay special attention to light and shadows, reflection, which gives the pictures air and volume. I always use 100% cotton 300g or 640g watercolor paper and high-quality paints Winsor&Newton. All my paintings are painted by me and ready to ship in 1-2 days. I love to create oil paintings, small miniatures of landscapes, still lifes, and flowers.