W.I.P.

Just can't seem to leave the yupo alone.

This one was initially painted with Createx gold and quinocredone gold.  I smushed

a dry cleaning bag around on it to get some good texture, left it for about five minutes and 

pulled the bag off.  When all was dry, I gave it a coat of matte medium.

Then I mixed up some alizarin crimson water color and a tad bit of cobalt blue

and used a large brush to cover the entire sheet.  I got some interesting bubbles this time.

I traced my giraffe onto the dry red surface and began the lift using a small scrub brush

and water.  I love, love, love watching the subject emerge.
As you can see, I have left the most tedious, detailed part for last...
not a good idea!

Remember him?  He was done on plain white yupo with the same water color wash.

This color wash was crimson and orange sort of mixed on the surface.

And this will be an elephant if I can ever settle on the elephant sketch I want to use.

I used grey acrylic craft paint, silver and fuchsia Createx and smushed it

with crumpled up wax paper to get the texture I wanted.

I am thinking I will use a dark, dark purple for the watercolor wash.

That's what is sitting on my desk.  What about you??

Happy PPF

and here comes February!