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Mystery Technique

Mystery Technique #118

August 20, 2022 – 11:11 pm

I love to demo how to paint clouds! So in honor of Cloud Appreciation Day, I’ll post a step-by-step tutorial on September 16. You can see it next month if you’ve signed up for email updates!

ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #117:

It’s handy to have several sizes of pipettes! First I sprayed the paper with water, then tilted it before adding irregular linear shapes with the large pipette. While it was still wet, I added various watercolors to the lines of water. Keeping the paper at an angle, I used different pipettes to drip Winsor & Newton Granulation Medium and more water into the lines. After the paper dried, I spattered assorted colors with my favorite spatter tools and added some yellow.

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Mystery Technique

Mystery Technique #117

July 20, 2022 – 10:26 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #116:

This is an example of Suminagashi, which is a Japanese marbling technique. The name means “floating ink,” and that’s a good description of the process. It was fun to experiment with marbling on different papers, and this is a closeup of my favorite one — it’s on Arches Cover.

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Mystery Technique

Mystery Technique #116

June 20, 2022 – 6:04 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #115:

Bubble wrap is the secret to this technique! After mixing several colors wet-in-wet, I placed a piece of bubble wrap on top of the wet paint and added a little weight in places to increase the contact between the 2 surfaces. As the water slowly evaporated, the watercolor pigment became more concentrated around the the bubbles’ edges, which created the irregular shapes you now see. Popping some of the bubbles in advance gave me more variety.

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