Sitting on a lounge chair in the saltiest sea in the world tourists cant help but attempt the cold water. Me being from Florida I know too much about the water and am very happy with toes in the water and a place to dip my paint brush.
Now that is cool... to dip your brush into an ocean, a sea, a body of water. Not just any water but an ancient sea and here I am in the sun looking at other sentient beings and somehow by just touching my brush to the sea i am grounded as a part of history connected for all time as my tiny little watercolor comes to life.
dipping my brush in the salty dead sea. Later I know that I am expecting some excitement. I have no clue what the salt will do to the pigments and how the salt will affect the paper.
time passed and the pigments look fine. The paper however has a punished quality with a crystalline patina.

Dead Sea with the Jordan hills in the background, 1998 10 cm x 8 cm
Notice the salt effect on the paper

Tags: Watercolor, Dead Sea, salt Watercolor, fine art