Bought some Reeves water mixable oil paints recently...I know...laws of physics....life as we know it gone to pot. But they don't smell as strong as regular oils, so I am finding them better to use(no headaches from fumes)
Prepped a small canvas...by gluing on a layer of dictionary pages...
dried thoroughly and painted over a thin layer of white gesso...
selected 4 blues and scraped onto canvas in horizontal stripes...
blending into gaps to get an even coverage...
then added some titanium white for interest.
Now I thought...instead of adding layers of paint, what would happen if I tried stripping colour out with water?
I just roughed out a figure, and continued "stripping" paint back til I got to the result in the top photo.
I am going to leave it to dry out a bit, and try out how "soluble" the paint is then. A product I definitely recommend a play with...if only for the looks you get when you tell people :D
Enjoy XXX
