Friday, April 14, 2023

Leaf Ghost #70

New paints. Well, new to me. These are from Yasutomo, and they’re intended for sumi-e painting. Thus they should by rights have been applied at full strength on a dry (and probably more absorbent) surface, as I did in my color tests.

In my typical style of misusing art supplies, I applied them wet on wet for the leaf ghost. This is my first time as an adult working with watercolors from a tray. It was great to be able to take just a tiny dab of paint at a time rather than filling a whole sauce cup and wasting most of it.

The result reminds me of Baskin Robbins store decor from the 1970s. Or maybe a circus poster faded with age.


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