I should have snapped a before picture – so you could see the repair details (there’s a different example below) – but you’ll have to trust me my ferris wheel was a sad watercolor. Goofing off with pastels over an expired watercolor can resuscitate the image into something altogether different, because the pastels are beautifully, brightly opaque.īandaids for all our mistakes! Plus, if you use arbitrary color, crazy mark-making and shifty compositions, you can nudge your art-brain off your habitual safe path, and tread on a brand new creative road.ĭo you know what I mean? Your experiments in the art studio are loaded with discovery and lessons.Ī box of pastels may be just what the watercolor doctor ordered…. (Do you do those too? This painting was another example of pastel over watercolor.) I knew it was overcooked at the three-quarters finished point – so I tossed it in a flat file to dry, with plans to feed it to the shredder.Ī few weeks later, I spotted the forgotten watercolor, and wondered if it might be a candidate for one of those “anything goes” art supply experiments with pastel over the watercolor. The painting above started as a watercolor. Spin 21 x 14 Pastel over Watercolor on paper (Sold) Pastel Over Watercolor
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