Painting 33

Ref 955; Descrptive Brushwork

Brushwork does not always play a large part in in watercolor work, if we work wet in wet, or building up a painting with a series of overlaid washes, the marks of the brush are relatively unimportant, however for wet on dry paintings, especially when foliage form part of the subject, the marks you make play a vital descriptive role and you can vary them according the shapes in the subject
with this on mind I worked in the following painting

This is the result, of this process:

 

As this is a night scene I did a loose description of the painting I wanted to work on;by working with a wet on dry brushing with médium dark tones (graphite dissolved in plain wáter and another graphite dissolved but now in wáter with a dab of cobalt blue and use accordingly all over cold press paper) 

 

 

 

 Once dry (this time I didn´t use fixer) , I start to define some colors over it  - where I wanted to place light and/or illumination behind

And again start using darker colors at selective places, which is easier and really dark base in the underpainting graphite applied at the begining

 

The tricky part of this painting is that once it was darker again I could give light by adding modeling paste over the selective places I wanted either, applying with a brush or with a Little spatula, wait to dry and then paint colorful colors over it