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My name's Pasqualino Fracasso.

I started watercolor in 2004. My passion for drawing and painting is something
that I had inside of me as a child, but discovered only a short time ago!

It all started a little by chance but then, like a thunderbolt, became an
overwhelming passion! I have cultivated this passion as a self-taught artist
because there was no one near me that I could be inspired by in this technique
and in this path.

So I studied books, I tried and tried and never gave up seeing that I had really
begun to “think of watercolor.” Then I had the good fortune to meet Franco
Grobberio who made me take the next leap and from there I started to work in
a more methodical way to refine my technique. I then began to make the first
solo where I really understood that people liked my paintings (to the point of
paying to have one in the house! Amazing!) And I was able to communicate
something through my art: painted to pull out something to me, and that
something was able to excite others as it excited me. At this point my studies
widened, leading me to experience many types of techniques, colors, subjects
and visions! Fantastic!

At the technical level the watercolor technique, as you can imagine, is difficult!
First: “the watercolor does not forgive!” you can't just make a mistake as you can
not go to erase or cover up the mistake (or at least not always). Second,
“watercolor is anti-instinctive” I can not do with a light white: I have to leave the
paper “not colored”. I have to plan my work deciding stages, tones and so on,
and have to have a clear idea of how to structure the work and then I can let go
of the instinct. Watercolor is made of successive layers of colors so I can not just
paint what I want: I think as a superposition of elements and colors that don't
show results immediately. And then there are so many other reasons, however, in
order to “watercolor” (and not paint with watercolors) you have to “think”
differently than painting in general: once that happens I am able to make this
leap that opens up a world, fascinating and painful that puts us to a new level
where you can really begin to work.

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