Sooo if you are anything like me when it comes to watercolors, you probably like to mix in some other things to create texture - be it salt, plasticwrap, wax or alcohol.
Yeah.
Using alcohol with Ecoline (a brand of liquid watercolor)? BAD IDEA.
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| glad this happened with a lineart I wasn't really proud of anyway |
What happened was is that in combination with the alcohol, the ecoline started to stain the paper and behave very much like a marker causing it to run under the masking fluid I had used on this and being impossible to lift off with water.
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| backside of the paper |
The reason why Ecoline behaves so different from "normal" watercolor? Well my guess is that, since ecoline is a solution rather than a suspension of pigments, that the smaller alcohol-molecules where able to permeate deeper into the paper than water does, taking the ecoline solution with it (since it seems to be stable with water it's probably stable with other polar solvents as well).
Or I might be wrong altogether.
In any case, this was a pretty educational painting
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Keep this beauty of a blog I dare you!
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to see more sketches, experimental, digital, traditional awesome stuff you do! <3
Aww thank you ;; I will try to keep this one alive fore a while, I just had a really bad history with that in the past lol
DeleteIch guck mir immer wieder deinen sketchblog an :D Deine colos sind so schön und deine Zeichnungne insgesamt wirken so sicher, das mag ich :>
zeitwolf linked me to this article. how could i have missed that. I had my share of trouble and joy with ecoline, too. The colors are... SOOO PREETTTTYY though ; )
ReplyDeleteThey do not so much fool around with zeichentusche from rohrer and klinger, though. I could mix that quite well without undesired effects.
thank you for explaining the reason behind their weird behaviour.