Painting 33

Ref 1035 Watercolor // Watercolor over modeling paste on canvas

This medium is used to build up textural and three-dimensional effects. It’s perfect for giving a raised effect to subjects such as flower petals, stone walls, and buildings. Apply it on the surface with a spatula, let dry, and paint over it with watercolor — paint will adhere well to the surface. You can also make an imprint into the paste or scratch into it before it dries completely in order to create desired textures. This fine paste has a creamy consistency and I tinted with tube watercolor to build up this painting taking advantage of its transparent properties to work on model skin
I like to experiment with modeling paste so I added an underlying texture with some  watercolour as under-base for this painting
This is the result of this particular process;

Step 1.- Canvas cut and masking taped
              Draw the composition
              Material needed through out initial activities are;
                                         molding fine paste
                                         Spatulas several sizes
                                         Fan brush and flat brush (wear) for texture zones

 

Step 2.- It is better to start covering from background to foreground with modeling paste, but I did a change doing from foreground to background in order to do twice at the foreground to build up more thickness and then more 3D relieve, modeling paste is regarding its thichness in some way transparent so you can follow the sketching lines below

Modeling paste for this particular Project was first tinted with watercolor and added with a Little spatula over the model body regarding shadows on it to work later on as the color base

Do not worry if you overpass some lines in some way it is better for integration purposes

 

This is how it looks after model completation, as you can see sketching lines are still visible underneath at the end of this application the molding paste applied I added wáter with my fingers over it to smooth its surface

Step 3.- After wait a liitle bit to dry you can start working in the middle ground "the granite Stone" in which I need to texturize accordingly first adding the tinted modeling paste with the flat brush and usingg here and there the fan brush  (color should be the darkers ones because they´ll be working as the shadows as for the reference)

 

4th Step.- Now the background wich is the darker one (do not use black to avoid 2D look ) and take advantage to redifine model figure

 

 

5th Step.- Now in order to build up more relieve I´m adding more modeling paste in the Stone with a tinted médium shadowing color over it with additional texture as I´ll be adding it also when I start to work above the model figure the darker original color still is transparent for the following layers  giving rich colors at the end .- Now this is my underpainting

 

 

 

6st Step.- with watercoloring and fine brushes  I redefine the figure from dark to ligth and take away the masking tape leaving the original color of the canvas as the frame --- This is the result a relieved 3D painting in watercolor over canvas

 

 

 

 

This is the final painting without the frame .- results are really ineresting by all colors you can get with those transparencies added through out the whole process