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I let my printed watercolor sheets sit for a few days to make sure the ink is nice and dry before I start painting first washes of color. My Canon PIXMA Pro9000<\/a> doesn’t have waterproof ink. Although, I looked into getting some, I also use the printer as an everyday inkjet and share it with my husband when he needs to print something at home. I just don’t see the expensive ink being justified for this. Especially since the printed line art will mostly blend into the painting of the first washes of color.<\/p>\n

Painting first washes of color<\/h2>\n

I start with the largest section of the background. In this case a creamy pale orange-yellow on the classroom walls and the dusty red-tan for the rug on the floor.<\/p>\n

\"painting<\/a>As you can see, I haven’t stretched and taped my paper at this point. So the pages are buckling and warped. Not to worry, once I have the big washes down, I will do that. My trick is to mist the back of each painting and let it soak in before flipping it and attaching it to a white felt covered canvas board. I use regular masking tape and make sure to tape outside of the crop marks which I include in the file I print to the watercolor paper.<\/p>\n

I like to mix a desert-sized bowl of the pigment I’ll be using so there isn’t a large color drift from the first painting to the last. I use a porcelain bowl so there isn’t a chance of staining or chemical reaction from the paints I use.<\/p>\n

I have a pretty standard color palette of a mix of Windsor Newton, American Journey and Van Gogh paints. Occasionally, I’ll find a color I really love in another brand and add that in. I like American Journey<\/a> paints because they come in larger tubes, have a vast variety of pigments to choose from and are generally less expensive.<\/p>\n

The vignettes won’t be getting any background treatments, so you don’t see them here.<\/p>\n

This usually takes me a day or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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