RbaArt Protograph: Watercolour with top surface paper removal
This one was completed using Cotman student quality watercolour paint on watercolour paper. The image was constructed with two layers of wet-on-wet paint. The second layer after the first layer had dried. Only six colours were used. Cerulean Blue, Cobalt blue, Light Red, Paynes Gray, Raw Sienna, and a purple thingy. Sorry about the technical term, but I can't recall the name of the last half pan. It would have been five colours, but alas the singke blue didn't work alone and another one had to be found. Mind you, there were about forty eight half pans in the tin, so I think that I done well in deciding to limit my palette!
A stiff palette knife was used to indent the paper when it was wet, and the sharp edge if that particular palette knife was used to lift the paper as it dried. Finally, a scalpel was used to lift more of the paper to expose bits of the clean white layer underneath after all of the painting was done.
