Mystery Technique #79

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #78

You can get interesting “ghost” shapes with acrylic medium and watercolor glazes. To avoid pencil lines, I started by drawing tangled linear shapes with a brush filled with water. Next I added diluted gloss medium to the watery lines. After this layer dried, I applied green and blue watercolor glazes with some granulation medium in the blue to increase the texture. The ghost shapes of acrylic medium partially resist the watercolor and show through the other layers to increase the sense of depth. Here’s another example:

 

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