Primarily Umbrellas - Homework Again

Time to wet the paper again and pour more colors into those pale areas that were too bossy so they don't draw your eyes there.

Then waiting (there is a lot of waiting in this technique!) for the paper to dry completely before doing the trickles of water and drizzles of paint technique. I didn't want to do it but Sandy said I should do it just in the deck area so I did.

Taking a thin brush, I used clean water and touched it to the paper, tilting the paper to let it trickle over and around on its own. Then I took the same thin brush loaded with some thinned (with water) fluid acrylic, touched the brush to those same trickles and let it drizzle around. You don't want X's or strong lines but you want thin drizzles of color to add another element to the painting. Not too dark, not too light, not thick but more calligraphic in design. I used the same 3 primary colors plus one surprise color: Dioxizine Violet.

Then, when everything is bone dry - bone dry = more waiting. Go have a cup of coffee or read a magazine or get some exercise if you don't play guitar like Nick Simmons while the paint is drying :) When dry, remove all the misket except for the splatters you put in here and there, and you have this:

So what to do next?

Well, now you have to go back and put misket in any areas inside the white umbrellas that you want to keep white - raindrops, water spots, shine, etc.

And redraw any lines you may need to have that were removed when you lifted off the misket.

And that is as far as we are allowed to go before class next Tuesday!

I know!!! How can I wait that long? I'll have to start another one.