Abstraction

This week I pulled out my old gessoed watercolor paper

and with a class from Jill Krasner, I tried to create an abstract.

It is so easy for me on yupo with stensils and my roller and most importantly, my control.

This is an entirely different ballgame.

I created a small sample of what I wanted to do on the big paper.

I never took a photo of it until after I had reworked it a few hours later.

Then I went to work on the full sheet of watercolor paper.

I had done a second coat of gesso to create texture for the background.

I also used a dry cleaner bag squished onto the paint to get more texture.

Not abstract but it was a lot of fun to do.

You can see above where the old floral was before it got reworked.

And waiting in the wings is a new background done with the acrylic paint "dump".

No idea where this one will go.

And from the lanai this week...

One of my very favorite cattleyas, Chocolate Drop.
I shared it last week but it is even more gorgeous this week
Happy PPF