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| 'Fun at the Beach' 18x12 pastel ©Karen Margulis available $175 |
The painting needed some life. It wasn't bad but it was dull. There was no light or movement. I had set it aside and moved on. But then one of my Patreon members shared a painting on which she had splashed gouache. It brought back memories of my experiments with watercolor ON TOP of pastel.
I wanted to try it again. This time I had some tubes of gouache so I squeezed out some yellow and white and mixed it with some water. The I loaded my brush and flicked it onto my painting. I had the painting upright on the easel on a piece of foam core. That was a good thing because I was flinging paint everywhere! It was fun and I discovered that the thin puddles of paint worked better than the thicker puddles. Look at the close up photo below to see the splashes. They turned into flowers!
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| closeup of splash 'flowers' |
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| The original painitng was a bit dull |
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