My friend Ginny Stiles has inspired me to check out the abstract watercolors of Peggy Furlin - she does beautiful work. I decided to try something similar to her work and it was much more difficult than I expected.
I started with a wet-in-wet background - I poured Liquitex acrylic inks using yellow, red-violet and pthalo blue and lots of water - I moved the paper around a lot in order to get the colors to blend and mix.
Then I did a light pencil drawing of the composition and painted in the various shapes using watercolor. I used the Rives BFK printmaking paper (6x10) which worked very well for this work.
4 comments:
I would have thought printmaking paper would have worked like a blotter and been hard to paint on. I think you did a good job and I like the abstractness of this.
Barb - this is so pretty - I love the colors you chose - for some reason it makes me think of musical notes (don't ask me why?) Very lovely and thanks for sharing.
Thanks,Rhonda - I thought printmaking paper would be very absorbant - and this is - but not to the extent I expected.
Thanks, Debbie - Maybe because of the title - wasn't that a Muppet's song at one time?
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