It is hard to wrinkle up 300 pound paper without tearing it. I was fairly successful at it today’s watercolor. Below is the first phase, where I used mainly earthy colors with blues along the ridges.
Distressed Abstract – Preliminary
8″x8″ 300# Cold Pressed Watercolor Block
The patterns on the rough, unpainted paper made me think of how some of Paul Klee’s later work were described: affording the eye no resting place.
Distressed Abstract – Final
8″x8″ 300# Cold Pressed Watercolor Block
I tried to accentuate these lines with charcoal. I fear I wasn’t completely successful in this. There are lines that pull my gaze in a predictable direction. In that sense it is more pleasing that having the eye constantly seeking, with no place to rest.
Looks like heavy impasto and in great colors. N.
Thanks, Nina! I agree, in the first pic; the second got all charcoaly, and has a different look to it. I was trying to make the eye wander.
j