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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #130:
Fun with Yupo continues! I wet the paper first, then added diluted acrylic ink. Next I dropped in isopropyl alcohol, which repelled the wet paint to create all sorts of mysterious effects. As the water evaporated, concentric dark edges formed around some of the shapes.
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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #129:
Intriguing effects happen when you paint with diluted acrylic inks on Yupo! It’s a synthetic paper, so the paint sits on the surface instead of soaking in. I started by painting the sheet with water and then dropped in the paint, tilting the paper to make the colors flow. When the blue was almost dry, I sprayed it with water to create a mottled texture in places. Darker outlines sometimes formed at the boundaries between wet and dry shapes; I imitated this effect by applying paint to the tip of my Angle Chisel Colour Shaper tool before dragging it across the surface in a twisting motion and using a sponge to partially blend it in.
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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #128:
You can get luminous watercolor mixtures by glazing! First I drew 3 lemons and painted them all with a graded wash of the same intense yellow, adding a little yellow-orange to the one on the bottom. After this layer dried, I created a shadow color for the lemon on the right by mixing Permanent Rose and Cobalt Blue. To avoid disturbing the yellow layer, I used a soft brush to gently rewet the lemon before adding the blue-violet shadow. I repeated the steps for the lemon on the bottom, substituting a mixture of Cobalt Blue and Viridian for the shadow.
Mixing colors with transparent glazes can create dramatically different results from palette mixtures, as you can see here.
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