I love watercolor painting. It's one of my favorite hobbies.
Thats great! I have been painting watercolor paintings all my life, I do both medium shades and dark shades, My resulting artwork is always so pretty. 
I bet! What types of watercolor paintings do you do? Nature? Abstract?
Im more of a nature type, although it changes some time. 
I love doing nature portraits, especially of old barns and streams.
obscuring the pigment colors. Watercolors can also be made opaque by adding Chinese white.
In East Asia, watercolor painting with inks is referred to as brush painting or scroll painting. In Chinese, Korean and Japanese painting it has been the dominant medium, often in monochrome black or browns, often using inkstick or other pigments. India, Ethiopia and other countries have long watercolor painting traditions as well.
American artists in the early 19th century seemed to regard watercolor primarily as a sketching tool in preparation for the "finished
a painting, a landscape, to me it’s the mood conveyed that counts.”
“A friend of mine New York at the Salmagundi Club asked me why I didn’t paint watercolors. I said I don’t know how, and he said all you have to do is keep your board a little slanted so when you wash the color onto the paper it runs downhill. That I was my only lesson in watercolor.”
“It’s hard to say whether I have a favorite place to paint.