A Bird of a Different Color

"Pandora Migrant"

9" x 12"

merging watercolor with pastel

on UART sanded paper

adhered to gatorboard

I am plugging along with the online course I am taking

with Tonja Sell.  Finally hit the part that I will be loving even more.

The underneath of this one is watercolor washes, color mixing, stenciling,

gauze placement, plastic wrap effects and lots of manipulation of the surface.

In such a hurry once it was dry, forgot to take a photo of it.

Once that step is completed, you turn the piece around and around until

you find an object or thing you can embellish into 

a piece of reality - reminds me of when I was a little

girl and would lay for hours looking at the woodgrain

on my closet door and see faces or animals.

I saw a bird..and used a plastic sleeve and marker

to draw it out to refer to

upon adding more watercolor and pastel.

I got carried away with those whispy lines on the pastel.

I saw a bird with fine, shiny, colorful feathers.

The color families you see, were the color families

that were produced in the underpainting...which

if you knew, there is some underpainting showing

through on the end result.  Next time, I will photograph the

watercolor for you to see the process more completely.

BTW, for permanency - gatorboard is my new GO TO strata

for adhering artwork to.  It is good and strong.

  Foamcore usually warps

 when using PVA glue. I order

my gatorboard from

foamboardsource.com

UART comes in lots of different grit and either paper 

or board and

 is available at major art suppliers, 

I got mine from Dick Blick. Dakota Pastel

carries it too.