Watercolor Gift

Did you miss the first phase of my experimenting with watercolor canvas?

I didn’t have any rags handy this morning and I wanted to know what kind of results I would get using paper towels anyway - those are what I generally use in my studio.

As you can see from this corner, I got rid of the grasses that were an eyesore. I did not get back to the whites of the canvas but the underneath layer of color is not as disturbed as I expected from putting on so much pressure and water on the area. I do not buy expensive paper towels and this one melted quickly with this kind of abuse. The canvas appears to be just fine and dandy. If I had done this to watercolor paper, it would have a very large hole in it where I rubbed and scrubbed on it.

I will let the canvas dry and sit again, perhaps next weekend I will use a rag to scrub more off to see if I can get closer to the whites of the canvas or not without ruining the area. And perhaps I will start scrubbing off color in another area beginning with the rag to see if that takes off more and gets back towards the whites quicker. Or I may never get anywhere near close to the whites again. We’ll find out - I am not expecting bright whites by any means but a greyish or misty white-grey mottled probably … I am about 1/4 the way there this morning.

For my morning seascape brush adventure with the canvas sheets, Perils of using cheap brushes on watercolor canvas sheets

This is my first attempt at painting on the watercolor canvas sheets. I only used my watercolor pencils.

The sheet did not buckle anywhere near what I was expecting. The first layer I laid down using the watercolor pencils, I used a lot of water (I thought anyway) using a mop brush and it did not run & scatter like paper does … I liked that. The colors were darker than usual and I liked that also. I put the tree on next - I let it dry then lifted some color out here & there on the tree. I also put in the grass … the bottom left corner grass is not good - I did that on purpose .. I want to play with this some to see if I can fix it to make it better. Next I will be putting in some leaves on the tree … seeing if I can fix the grass into something I like or not .. it will be fun. According to Tom Lynch - we don’t ever have to throw one of these away because we do not like how it turned it - he said he has reworked on these up to 30 times. We’ll see … once I get to 20, I will let you know

I give the watercolor canvas sheets a 10 on a scale of 1-10. I am still not giving up paper painting at all though … both have their place in my watercolor painting … I want a roll of the watercolor canvas - I have a mural project in mind that I would rather use watercolors than oils - that is the main reason I decided now was the time to try the watercolor canvas. The texture of watercolor paper is different than canvas of course so I can do different things with each. I’m looking forward to it. I enjoyed using it and am looking forward to getting better at using it … I hope you enjoy it too!

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