Painting 33

Ref 1097; Acrylic / Watercolor // Watercolor saturated with salt and dried into the microwave for underpainting texturization

 completed and defined with White acrylic paint over Stardream bronze color paper 105 lb
----( The difference between the acrylic and watercolour whites is the amount of pigment in the two ranges. acrylic is a plastic paint that mixes with water and once dry, stays dry is more opaque with more body which is why it is used for block color. and conform splashes around the wave)

This is the result of this technique;

Main steps.- I added salt to satúrate a pool of wáter, stirring with the brush everytime to paint with that solution the wave body form
The paper is a darker color which help us to contrast the salt pattern

1st Step.- This is how it looks the paper with the wáter with saturated salt over the paper

2nd Step.-You can use the oven to dried the solution at approx 75°c by 5 min or the microwave 1min, I didn´t use the craft gun, we need  higher temperature, so the salt melts within the paper, now the water wave it has some shine points, but the photo can´t show at all, but you can see the high contrast achieved

3rd Step.- Take away most of the salt not attached to the paper, where you planning to add more paint, to have a good base for next watercoloring steps, into the photo you can see where I added the blue color to have my different tones on it

4th Step.- I did repeat the wáter solution addition and microwave again to reinforce my wave

 

5th Step.-With dark Brown and ultramarine mixes you can have deep and variation within the darkers and then higligth its borders and shapes with ligther colors, I could use gouache to highligth the wave but gouache reactivates every time wáter is added, instead the acrylic dries quickly allows me to conform the splashes around the wave and giving me more body within this Project

 

6th Step.- Final details and  again watercolor to smooth surfaces, integrating and lifting color with and absorbent paper

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