Yuck! I am really not enjoying the experience of using watercolors on index cards. This is the last day I am doing that. Today's experiment is to layer the pencils on the paper dry and then add water so I made circles on the card and colored in with combinations of colors, starting with mixing primary colors. Then I pulled out my color wheel and started mixing color neighbors, and finally mixed complimentary colors. Then, I took a wet paintbrush to each circle to see what would happen. The colors did mix, but you can also see streaks of each original color, too. On watercolor paper, color lifts off better so I think the color would mix more completely on that base. Well, I liked my experiment well enough until I painted the background. This time I wanted to try scribbling the pencil on another piece of paper and then applying it to my work in progress. I immediately realized I needed to moisten my work first, which I did. But then I still couldn't get consistent results across the whole piece because the index card grabbed the color too well and couldn't be "smushed" around if you got too much in one place. So my background is splotchy and uneven. Well here...see for yourself:
Well, I think I've tried using watercolor pencils every way I can this week. And I've learned quite a bit about them. I like the control you get from them. I'll still need to do more color mixing with them, but I think I am on my way to being able use them as a medium. One of the biggest lessons learned is....use the best quality supplies you can afford! Tomorrow, it's time to put it all together and create a small piece of art using my pencils.
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