Scrubbing Off Color from Watercolor Canvas (the first time)
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
