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ANSWER TO MYSTERY TECHNIQUE #126:

This technique uses ice cream salt and requires a little patience! First I used a template to draw a circle before painting it with intense yellow watercolor paint. After the yellow dried, I glazed the circle with a layer of blue-green and placed some big crystals of ice cream salt into the wet paint. As the salt and the watery green slowly interacted, some of the yellow underpainting began to reappear. Interesting textures gradually developed around and underneath each crystal.