It is time to shake things up in my studio. All those little bushes on my last painting kind of freaked my eyes out and I need something new to think about. After doing a little research and thinking about it a bit, I decided to see what the technique- called grisaille- would look like under an agave with watercolor. Might be a disaster, might be wildly successful, who knows? At this point, all I can say for sure is my waterproof ink, Higgins "Black Magic," is a pain in the neck. Wet on dry, wet into wet, getting a smooth gradation is tricky. As you can see.
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| Wanting a chiaroscuro effect, I decided to go all out with a black ink underpainting. |
However, it's fun. I like the stark look of it. Playing around with value without the added thought process of color is interesting. The black may totally kill the color when I glaze over it later, but for now it's pretty cool.
Thanks for stopping by! Alice
2 comments:
I like this as it is - perhaps do another with an underpainting of color (dark blue? just a thought). But this is definitely striking so I hope you don't get smears when you lay down the colors - keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Me too, Rhonda. It's supposed to be waterproof and I tested it a bit, but laid in this heavy it might lift. I'll post the success/disaster either way!
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