Watercolour wash

The prompt

Loose watercolour painting animation on white cold-press paper: every shape painted in transparent washes with hard dried edges and wet-on-wet blooms, colours bleeding into each other, white paper left bare as the highlights, a sketchy pencil underdrawing visible beneath, the paint subtly repainted each frame so the edges shimmer like a painted flipbook. On a rooftop garden above a city in late-afternoon sun, a girl of about ten with short brown hair in a yellow T-shirt waters potted tomato plants with a small tin watering can. Medium-wide shot at her eye level, three-quarter view, the camera holding still. 0–2s: she tips the watering can over a potted plant and water splashes onto the leaves. 2–4s: a white paper airplane glides in from screen left and lands on the rim of the pot beside her. 4–6s: she sets the can down, picks up the paper airplane and turns it over in her hands. 6–8s: she looks up and out over the city rooftops and smiles as the wind ruffles the leaves and her hair. Throughout: the whole frame stays loose, transparent watercolour on white textured paper, with blooms, hard dried edges and bare white paper showing through, one continuous take.