Layering

Apart from putting on paint with various different techniques resulting in different marks being made, I also wanted to see whether or not it would be interesting to layer paint on top of each other and see if new colours are made , which usually happens in screen printing, or whether they would just blend together and look muddy. So , I decided to go for a more translucent medium and chose to use watercolour as watercolour can be applied , taken off and reapplied again without messing up.

I started by adding a rough layer of watercolour all over my paper, then proceed to dap off parts of the paper with a scrunched up ball of tissue leaving a sort of cloud like texture. I also decided to forgo using white this time as watercolour is quite a translucent medium therefore it wasn't necessary to use white. I also learnt through my past experiments that it is a lot more forgiving if you layer light colours first and then add darker colours at the end. So this is how it turned out.

Even though it is considerably a lot let busy than my previous experiment, I do really like you it turned out quite light looking and therefore would be very effective as a background.

And because I was curious to see how combining every technique I've learnt would turn out, I decided to do two more pieces.

In these two pieces I've decided to start layering with water colour first and then go in and add acrylic accents in order to introduce depth to the piece. I've also decided to use Abstract Innovative White Acrylic instead of Winsor & Newton 's White Acylic paint as I find that it was much more opaque therefore a lot more effective in doing what I wanted it to do.

I really liked how the white acrylic really stood out in these layouts and even though the paper ended up quite curled up, it didn't take away from the overall layout. I thoroughly enjoyed this experiment and would love to do it again soon.