[Chris Saper]

Watercolor is particularly frustrating when you are on someone else's clock. When there are passages that need to to dry, you try to leave them until the five-minute break so as not to lose painting time. I felt like a one-woman Vaudeville show, my board flying off the canvas, running to hair dryer (no extension cord to keep it near the easel), racing back again, and every time, at the wrong time.