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Mystery Technique #165

August 20, 2026 – 5:37 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #164:

Intriguing effects can happen at the boundaries between wet and dry areas! I started with a large puddle of water and then dropped in diluted watercolors with pipettes before tilting the paper back and forth to make the wet paint run. I also added some Winsor & Newton Granulation Medium, which helped create the veining effect. After all the liquid evaporated, I painted the top with a mixture of watercolor and gouache for contrast. I let this layer dry before emphasizing some of the edges with watercolor pencils.

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Mystery Technique #157

December 20, 2025 – 7:12 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #156:

You can create intriguing textures by glazing with diluted Hydrus watercolors! This leaf started with a layer of yellow. After it dried, I wet the entire shape and dropped in Hydrus Permanent Red and Winsor & Newton’s Granulation Medium. I tilted the paper back and forth to increase the texture. When this layer was dry, I wet the leaf again and added Hydrus Sap Green, more Granulation Medium, and the veins, which I scratched in with the end of a metal paint tube.

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Mystery Technique #152

July 20, 2025 – 9:13 pm

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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #151:

I started with an abstract underpainting of diluted acrylic ink. After this layer dried, I masked out tree shapes with clear contact paper and applied loose washes of granulating watercolors with pipettes, mixing the colors wet-in-wet. I also added some Winsor & Newton Granulation Medium to increase the texture.

I let this layer dry, then continued using pipettes to paint the trunks. To create the texture of fine spatters, I rewet parts of the painting and scraped flecks of Inktense Blocks over the wet surface.

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