Watercolor has always been one of Passani’s most loved artistic expressions, a pictorial technique that he always exercised in his more than 70 years of activity. He used it to create figures, landscapes, genre scenes and anything else he wanted to represent. And with complete mastery of the medium.

Going against the academic rules that would have removed the drawing lines from the superimposed color,  Passani frequently emphasizes the  underlying drawing component, using the lines to  make the scene more descriptive and incisive.

In Passani’s watercolors the prostitute offers her services, the circus performer exhibits her qualities, the blind man and the beggar beg with decorum, while the madmen scream their freedom to the world under the watchful gaze of grotesque nuns. Passani’s dreamlike thought unfolds with executive speed in these watercolors, as if he were writing in a diary, quickly and with an awareness that the thought might at any moment be forgotten.