Painting 33

Ref 898.- Pattern with Charcoal - my first try

To try this texture, first sift a light coat of pure powdered artist´s charcoal onto dry watercolor paper and/or mix in wáter and apply with a brush .--- powdered charcoal slides of a pool of wáter, but it adheres to dry paper, the result is a different texture to bring additional interest to your painting  I added with a brush in the background of the following painting, and with same material to make some tattooes in the figure, ----After background dries, then I spray the área with a pump sprayer to set the texture, (now I know after additional experimentation that we need to rinse the entire paper with clear wáter and let it dry) so when I start to add color as a light layer over the painting the tattooes dissapear in a big porcentaje, that was my mistake, nevertheless  I wanted to show the result the figure was made with opaque yellow (gouache) +iridicent media; then Green and blue with transparent watercolor in accordance  light and shadows
 Note the base pencil color in the figure vanished with the watercolor added afterward as layers, I could fix some black color like hair but the tattoes didn´t work at all .---   Creativity is allowed some mistakes, but the art is to know which to avoid next time, and by the way also I ´forgot to complete the background next to the neck --