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Monday, April 23, 2012

Watercolor on Gesso



Another small work, this time on acrylic gesso coated 90# Fabriano watercolor paper. I really love working with transparent watercolor on gesso. The paints reacts very different on this surface and if I add texture to the gesso while it's still moist, it creates the opportunity for some interesting effects later on. This is a fantasy floral, no reference used. I find, while texturing the gesso, if I don't have any plan in mind beforehand and simply allow the resulting texture to guide me, I can get more spontaneous results.

2 comments:

William Covington said...

Extraordinary colours in the painting. A lovely piece of art work.

Billie Crain said...

Thank you so much, William!