Studio Time

Given that I just finished 3 pieces and have several others close… I decided to treat myself and start a new one. This is 22×28 inches, which just happens to be the size of my largest, empty drawing board. It’s on Arches oil paper. This first image is the thing covered with a watercolor wash of Sennelier’s Chinese Orange as well as Winsor Newton’s Cerulean Blue and Brown Madder. I tossed some salt on it to give it the texture.

After letting it dry for a day, I scrubbed off the salt. Half an eraser later… I did the automatic drawing/scribble you see here with watercolor pencils.

In an effort to sort of speed things up, I used an airbrush and the same colors I used to start things as well as Winsor Newton’s Dioxazine Purple to begin defining some of this. This image is taken after I put a light coat of U.V protective sealer on things.