Watercolor TECHNIQUE,wet on wet

Spring Emerges

Mixed Media Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

Materials:

Watercolor

 colored pencils

ink on mixed media paper

Spray the canvas or paper with water, saturating the entire surface. Load a paint brush with watery acrylic or watercolor pigment and float it onto the wet surface.  Use many colors or a limited palette.  Watch the colors bleed into each other forming new colors and interesting shapes.  Let dry or dry with a hairdryer or heat gun.  If the colors are not rich enough to suit you, repeat the process.


Do the patterns and colors cause you to think of a subject?  Use paint to softly help these forms emerge from the background. Or try stenciling a pattern over the background and then paint freeforms to embellish the stencil. You can also use ink to enhance the background.


When I came back..... there she was just waiting for a little help to peek out from the background.  I cannot imagine life without art.  I call this "Spring Emerges."

Spring Emerges

Watercolor, colored pencil, and ink on mixed media paper

For details and price, contact Linda at studioabsee@yahoo.com