Quan Yin, watercolored with berries

While hanging out in a friend's backyard a couple weeks back, I saw a bush with a bunch of berries.  It got me thinking...if I could paint a leopard with coffee, could I paint something with berries? So I grabbed a small batch of berries and took it home. With a little research, I found out it's called a fatsia bush. The berries aren't poisonous, but I don't think I'll try eating them!
First, I put a pot with a little water on the stove and boiled the berries down till I had a sauce, then strained it through a coffee filter into a cup. Then I let it sit for a couple of weeks...not intentionally. I just had not been inspired. It actually thickened up even more, almost to a cream consistency ( thicker on the bottom, watery still on the top). Hmmm...I might be onto something here.
So I decided to paint a small portrait of Quan Yin. The "berry paint" just doesn't flow quite as well as higher quality paint, but it does the job, from thin wash to darker coverage. I have to be careful not to dredge up too much sediment though.