Saturday, September 20, 2008

Lime 63

No holds bar on this one (is that the proper quote?) First the ink with an eye dropper. Then I blotted around with a paper towel. Then I threw sea salt on the wet ink. I would not recommend it. The salt dried into the ink and it was hard to get out. Plus it didn't have the desired affect.

Then I painted and splattered watercolor on it and threw on some more salt. Done....Lime 63


2 comments:

lmp said...

How many of your limes (or what percentage if that is easier to guestimate) do you do with ink? Do you ever use a brush or do you use paper towels mainly? Thanks. Love your paintings.

Randy said...

Many start with ink. When I am doing watercolor I would say 90%. Mostly I use the eye dropper in the ink lid for drawing with ink. I can get good heavy and light lines and work fast and furious.

I do use the brush at times or a rapidograph pen. It depends on what I am trying to achieve. I usually have the finished piece in my head and then achieve it by the best possible means.