Salted Colors

Today’s watercolor is another salt experiment. Instead of washing the entire paper with single colors, I mixed them in one pass. While the pigments were mixing in the wet mass on the paper, I sprinkled pretzel salt on them and waited for it to dry. Here is the result: I’m going to pin this up in […]

Abstract with Salt

Sometimes it is good to get back in touch with art materials. Not only pigments, but their interactions, behavior in dry or saturated conditions, and interactions with other substances. Today, the ‘other substance’ is salt. I used indanthrone blue and lemon yellow to wash the watercolor paper. I spread a bit of large-grained salt (that […]