Embroidered Collage

I received tube watercolor paints for Christmas, a small Winsor and Newton Cotman set.  The tubes are so TINY compare to what I'm used to with acrylics.  So I had to play with them. 

It really is a different experience from the pans and the crayons.  Somehow mixing colors is more natural when squeezing out little dabs of paint than when using pans.  I also tried some lifting out of paint, both with brush and paper towel, which are where some of the lighter areas came from.  I thought the resulting 9x12 sheet was really pretty neat, but ended up cutting it down to two 5x7 sheets to achieve better compositions.