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.
Thats fantastic, I even seen that some watercolors can be made opaque by adding Chinese white.It is what I use to make the clouds in my paintings. 
I never thought of that! I'll have to try that next time I get in the mood to paint.
However, this term has been more and more passing out of use.
The traditional and most common "support"—material to which the paint is applied—for watercolor paintings is paper. Other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum, leather, fabric, wood and canvas. Watercolor paper is often made entirely or partially with cotton. This gives the surface the appropriate texture and minimizes distortion when wet. Watercolors are usually translucent, and appear luminous because the pigments are laid down in a pure form with few fillers
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.