Post #222229 by kooche on Tue, Mar 21, 2006 2:12 PM

each image is an idea before it's a piece of water color paper being painted - those ideas are usually scribbled out very small - like as big as a stamp or maybe a bit bigger - then - i go for it! i use a bit of pencil to rough it in someitmes other times i just stand back from the painting - look at the arrangement and then fire in with paint...i recently started to use my fingers in all of my gouache paintings to get really organic wet into wet areas...trees clouds bushes water - then i'll cut frisket to tighten up patterns and silhouette value and get to thte linework

thansk for the interest!