Watercolour Negative Painting
Caroline explained that we will be creating the positive by painting the negative. She started by painting areas of colours yellows, reds, oranges, and browns with a large brush.She added salt on top of the wet parts and placed cling film over part of it. She sprayed the remaing part.
Using dark greens and browns with she parted to paint around the edge of the leaf letting the background colour show through in places.She added a second layer to the dried areas to darken them adding salt to them. She glazed orange over the leaf flicking dark paint over top. Using a ringer brush she demonstrated how to flatten it out by pulling it over one side then the other. Once flatten she used it to draw in further lines into the veins of the leaves. She suggested not to draw around the total leaf as it will flatten the look of it
