Watercolour is wonderful medium. That's also why I use a technique that I believe to be mine alone. Watercolour fascinates me. First I make an ink drawing, using china ink, or a pencil, since even my watercolours are strong and robust. Then, once I've completed the drawing, I start to lay down the colour. Then, I tend not to wet the paper. I work on the fresh colour, on the fresh drawing, let's say. Then I add the fill colour; the colour of the drawing folds into itself, and creates blotches. At times it covered everything, to such an extent that I used to destroy these watercolours: the colour was so intense and so spread out across the paper that it felt like the work was ruined. Then I happened to notice that by pouring water onto it, the excess colour was washed away and only the colour that the paper had managed to absorb in the meantime remained. These days I finish some of my watercolours, especially the large ones, with a final jet of water, a violent jet, or even a bucketful of water. I lay the coloured sheet on the ground and then I chuck plenty of water on it. The result is perhaps to some extent random, but not gratuitously so.
(Mario Lupo - "Story of life, story of painting”)