So I'm kind of in love with skulls and I just really wanted to paint a no-frills human skull. I took another swing at being more loose with watercolor and putting wet into wet over masking fluid with the background. Then after removing the masking fluid, I painted in the actual skull in my normal, anal-retentive way. This was again using my crappy paper, so after putting so much paint in the background, I actually couldn't remove my masking fluid, so I had to use a wet paint brush to dilute the layers of paint over the masking fluid and sop them up with paper towel. Not a huge to-do, but still annoying. This is the last piece I did with my crappy paper, so in case anyone thinks paper quality doesn't matter, take it from me: INVEST IN GOOD PAPER.
So again, not totally successful. My wet into wet got so saturated that it's kinda hard to tell it IS wet into wet. And the skull, while not exactly mono-chromatic, still feels local color-esque and not all that dynamic. It's not a bad skull anatomically, though, and overall the piece is kinda neat looking.
Watercolor on cold press.
