Salty Stuff...
An experiment in the reactions of different paints and salts and their uses in adding light to sky scapes.
Science says that salt attracts water, sucks it in, yet when sprinkled onto wet watercolour paper it repels the paint leaving white behind. The patterns left are organic and unpredictable, which is appropriate as watercolour often has it's own reaction to a wet paper and much like science, the art is in the observation and adaption of the formula to create something new.
Salted Sky
Salt and colour worked their magic leaving incredible textures and shapes across my page with the light of the paper glowing through. Yet it took another month of slowly adding depth and coaxing out the shapes I wanted to keep, an yet more time before I knew what to do to finish the piece.
This is my first art endeavor using aquapasto - a translucent thickener - that gives watercolour the viscosity of acrylics while maintaining their depth of colour an luminosity. Notice the trees and mountains - they ''stand out" from the paper but allow some of the amazing colours of the sky to glow through.
In Progress
This story is not finished, the painting is still wet... come back in a while and maybe something will appear here!
In Progress
This story is not finished, the painting is still wet... come back in a while and maybe something will appear here!