Waited and waited for the winter Back-to-School sale at Blick so that I could use my coupon! I've really been wanting to try absorbent ground for using watercolor and gouache, so I filled my little basket with these items:
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(Underneath is my journal/plan book - more on that tomorrow.)
For today, had to try out the watercolor ground in another sketch book in which I've been playing with water media. Started by collaging a page from an old Japanese magazine, applied the ground, then put it in my food dehydrator (because I didn't want to wait 24-72 hours!).
After about an hour (or less) I started painting with gouache. I'm glad that I'd left some parts of the collage without the ground so I could see the difference between ground and no-ground. Very nice paint application with the ground!
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One nice discovery is how the paint resisted in some spots where the ground was applied unevenly - or maybe it wasn't completely dry yet. It will be fun to experiment to exploit this effect.
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More fun to come!
(Underneath is my journal/plan book - more on that tomorrow.)
For today, had to try out the watercolor ground in another sketch book in which I've been playing with water media. Started by collaging a page from an old Japanese magazine, applied the ground, then put it in my food dehydrator (because I didn't want to wait 24-72 hours!).
After about an hour (or less) I started painting with gouache. I'm glad that I'd left some parts of the collage without the ground so I could see the difference between ground and no-ground. Very nice paint application with the ground!
One nice discovery is how the paint resisted in some spots where the ground was applied unevenly - or maybe it wasn't completely dry yet. It will be fun to experiment to exploit this effect.
More fun to come!