Good day Steemian!
Last week I've decided to draw legendary Jimi Hendrix using watercolor medium as my spare-times practise. I've used the watercolor paper that was left behind for quite sometimes.
After sketched and ready to work with watercolor
Unfortunately when applied the water and color, it shown the patches which indicate the paper is already damage.
The patches appear on the left and right of the paper
Before throw the paper, I've tried to figure out what can be done to it since there are another 10 pieces left from the book.
After sometimes, I have an idea to experiment it. Below is the step to recycle the paper and use other medium to paint. In this case I used acrylic.
What do you require for this activity:
- Maskin tape
- Gesso
- Brush
- Board
Here is the gesso that I used for this activity. It can be found in most of art store.
Use the maskin tape to stick the paper to board.
Using brush, apply the gesso from left to right (horizontal).
After 3 to 5 minutes, use brush to swipe vertically from top to bottom. This will make the surface smoother.
After 20 to 30 minutes the gessoed paper will dry and ready to use depend on the thickness of gesso applied to it.
Start to paint in acrylic. You also can use sand paper on surface - recomended if use oil to paint to cut down the dry time.
Thanks for reading. Hopefully this post is usefull for those who like to buy watercolor paper but seldomly use it until it no longer best to use. Heheh...same as myself.
Good sharing Master Halia! 👍👍
Upvoted & Resteemed.
Timo kasih bbanyok Oren.
Bravo..bravo..bijop..!
Abe Pad pun bijop...kamlia kamlia...
Awesome sharing... upvoted and resteemed!
Keep sharing a great content my friend... thank you!
Thanks to you bro.
Power...
....ranger pink. Heh...tqvm bro.
Best!
Thank you.
don't waste the paper. good job mr. halia.shahrum
Yeah...save the world! TQVM Mr Gayour.
Great post. This is really useful. I normally would use the damaged paper like that as a scrap paper or my testing ground when using water color. Sometime, it became a palette, as well.
Look forward for more upvotes for this kind of posting... Keep ‘em coming.
Anda sudah dapat undian saya....😬
Terima kasih @abgmie. Mohon tunjuk ajar.
Waahh hebat lukisan bro halia.... teruskan!!
Terima kasih bang @ulin
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Thanks.
ini..sangat informatif dan menarik tuan halia..syok tengok
Terimas tuan @rambai. Kertas photostat pun boleh sapu gesso kalau mau. Heheh