Studio Time

Several Hard Bop playlists and a half dozen or so Tangerine Dream albums later… this is the finished underpainting. Much of it is painted as “every other shape”. I tried to leave as much of the noise from the watercolor wash and the gradients from the airbrush work as possible. Watercolor is basically pigment with a bit of gum arabic to hold it on the paper. Coated with acrylic… it’s pretty much the same thing as an acrylic painting. The pigments are reasonably lightfast.

Basically, this clarifies stuff and gives me an idea as to where to take things. I gave it a couple of coats of clear acrylic and am letting it dry overnight.