And, life interrupting means that I haven't painted much recently. However, at a recent art league meeting we had a demonstration by a watercolor painter who does interesting things with yupo paper. Yupo is a synthetic paper...very smooth 'plastic'. Watercolor paint goes where it wants to go...sort of. The paint is not absorbed into the paper - it just sits on top.
Our demonstrator, Kathy Daywalt, took advantage of that property and covered the paper with paint. Actually she threw it around in what seemed to be a rather haphazard fashion. She let it dry and then looked at it. It's a little like looking at clouds and seeing images. Since she began as a portrait painter, she mostly 'sees' a face somewhere. She indicated that if we usually paint flowers, we would probably see flowers. If we paint birds or trees, we would see those images.
She defines her image with a watercolor crayon, wets the area with a brush and then lifts the paint with a crushed tissue. Amazing! She then uses other ways of defining and comes up with some very interesting textures and designs. see https://www.kathydaywalt.com/carousel.php?galleryID=180151
Well, anyway, it looked like fun. So I have been experimenting with yupo. What I realize is that my imagination (finding something in the 'clouds') needs work!
I brushed on and threw color at the paper. See anything?
Maybe like this?
I couldn't come up with anything. So, I got out my spray bottle and played with it...creating interesting textures. I threw some more color at it. I added more texture by using a wadded up, wet paper towel and did some blotting. It still didn't look like any 'thing', but was getting more interesting. I set it aside to dry.
Eh, maybe I'll go back and visit it again. Any ideas?
I have three more that I am playing with. They are drying. Maybe I can catch up with my 2x monthly goal...
