Monday, September 04, 2006

The boundaries between painting and drawing can get a bit blurred at times. I want to show this image from my current sketckbook of the rolling Atlantic. I drew it conventionally enough with a 4B and 2B pencil but then added a watercolour wash but used seawater instead. What we have here, with the original at any rate, is a picture of the Atlantic ocean but incorporating the waters of the Atlantic too.
Unlike when I have used water and added salt as seen on my Sept. 2 posting, sea water when it dries clumps the pigment but in a more even way.
Not so sure what the long term implications are here. Will the sea water eventually degrade the paper or for that matter, my brushes? We'll just have to wait and see.

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