Monday, July 26, 2010

Mailboxes on fredrix Watercolor canvas



This is actually my second day of painting. On the first day, I blocked in my background. Today I blocked in the mailboxes.
I find painting on this Watercolor Canvas a bit of a challenge. I normally paint on cold press watercolor paper. It absorbs the paint. This does not. So layer as you do on cold press watercolor paper doesn't work as well because each new layer removes the bottom layer. When you add the 2nd layer directly from the tube, with very little water added to it, it seems to work. So far things are working O.k.

This is my original pencil sketch.