I painted it in cold pressed, 300g Italian watercolor paper. I found it a very nice task to paint it.
My initial idea was to keep the painting with a white background. And then, as it sometimes happen, a few unplanned colored water drops found their way from my water jar to the pristine white background, and the stain could not be removed. Obviously, I had to introduce background. And…
Definitely not the best painting I have ever done! I have been painting with water colors for a while and tried to use acrylic in a similar fashion but on this old canvas, it just didn’t work out. I have put it down to “experimentation”!
Well I need to be honest here.This is not my original painting. For the first one I bought some watercolor paper from a hobby store and it was awful. It would not take a wash, it got all pilly and the paper rubber off. I could not lift to highlight,…
7 Jul 2021
