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Eve Drewelowe's journals, volumes II-III, 1950s

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itinerary with all its promise of ocean voyaging, and its newness of conception and organization; for a much smaller trip of all land travel, for all its color per square inch. The main pocket-sized trip might fit into our living scheme much more opportunality at some future date, then would our planned itinerary through Russia.
Before this, I had never done my watercolors except for the very form in class as a student before, jumping into painting. I had not been too enthusiastic about watercolors then, and had thought of my efforts more as just a step, an approach to oils rather than as a medium in itself. With the proposed Russian trip, however, I began considering watercoloring more seriously, for I was desirous of obtaining facility with a quieter medium -- one rather not only applied itself readily, but also dried without having to wait around for it. After my experiences sketching upon the world travels I recorded such a medium. For there I had to pack around wet oils most of the time and had to carry them, Balavian fashions, upon my head in going from place to place to help the crowding, allowing things from brushing against them and erasing my record. Not only were oils inconvenient to pack and to transport, but also a nuisance when it came to charming up my pallate and brushes and disposing of the leftover odds and ends of paint when the day was finished. I required a fast-moving medium just for travel.
With Russia in mind, I got busy and began adventuring in watercolors. I found much to my delightful surprise that this was rather a fortunate happy discovery. The medium was not only profoundly useful to me in grasping travel-notes, but also, at the same time was captivating; intriguing; from, I still, however, carried my oil

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itinerary with all its promise of ocean voyaging, and its newness of conception and organization; for a much smaller trip of all land travel, for all its color per square inch. The main pocket-sized trip might fit into our living scheme much more opportunality at some future date, then would our planned itinerary through Russia. Before this, I had never done my watercolors except for the very form in class as a student before, jumping into painting. I had not been too enthusiastic about watercolors then, and had thought of my efforts more as just a step, an approach to oils rather than as a medium in itself. With the proposed Russian trip, however, I began considering watercoloring more seriously, for I was desirous of obtaining facility with a quieter medium -- one rather not only applied itself readily, but also dried without having to wait around for it. After my experiences sketching upon the world travels I recorded such a medium. For there I had to pack around wet oils most of the time and had to carry them, Balavian fashions, upon my head in going from place to place to help the crowding, allowing things from brushing against them and erasing my record. Not only were oils inconvenient to pack and to transport, but also a nuisance when it came to charming up my pallate and brushes and disposing of the leftover odds and ends of paint when the day was finished. I required a fast-moving medium just for travel. With Russia in mind, I got busy and began adventuring in watercolors. I found much to my delightful surprise that this was rather a fortunate happy discovery. The medium was not only profoundly useful to me in grasping travel-notes, but also, at the same time was captivating; intriguing; from, I still, however, carried my oil