Jean-Pierre Rault works on motif but his real delight is a good soft lead pencil sketch. Find the good light, emphasized values and there you have a well-prepared watercolour. The ideal thing is to see the watercolour in your head and think well about it before beginning, so as to get into it. A quick set up with an only obsession : keeping the light, the composition, the values distribution and then the paintbrushes waltz can begin. The pleasure lies in the making, if the pigments work in an appropriate humidity, then the watercolour is alive. His favourite subjects : an old street, a harbour, a landscape, people …