Today’s watercolor experiment began with a swath of opera rose pigment that I painted with a 3″ hake brush. I thought about yesterday’s theme: lungs, air and cancer. The pinkish color opera rose, plus the medical them inspired an idea of somehow representing fluids of the body. I used English yellow and phthalo blue to paint stripes on either side of the opera rose patch.
I wanted to preserve these original colors, so I applied latex masking fluid to span all three color strips. After the latex dried, I glazed the exposed area with English yellow. I removed part of the mask and painted Payne’s gray in the resulting semi-circular channels. Cadmium red colored part of the central area of the circle.
When all the painting was completed, I used a screwdriver to deface the colors, ripping the paper through all the painted zones. I healed the torn area with a metallic silver pigment.
I felt a flash of anger as I drew the screwdriver across the paper. I’m not quite sure why.
it’s all in the process! reminds me of a reiki symbol Chokurei. you should look it up. It is the power symbol.
I will look it up. Thank you.
I really like this one! Bold and powerful. (K)
Thank you, Kerfe!