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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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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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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #114:
Acrylic gloss medium is the secret to this technique! While working wet-in-wet, I experimented with dropping diluted acrylic gloss medium into the wet paint. Because of the difference in viscosity, the medium pushed the more fluid paint away and left a series of irregular shapes that are lighter in value.
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