This is one of those project that just had to call done even though I didn't like it. The Daily Paper Prompt was "faded". The technique to is use watercolor crayons or pencils on the paper then spray it with a waterbottle to "fade" the color. I drew random overlapping shapes and colored them with my watercolor pencils. After I took the spray bottle to the color did indeed look faded, so I like this technique. But I don't like that I can see my pencil strokes...or my design! I think if I use either hot press watercolor paper or mixed media paper instead of cold press paper I won't see as much visual texture. The cold press paper really holds onto those stroke marks. I wanted to see how the technique works with stamp pad ink and distress inks so I rubbed my stamp pad around the edges of the paper, did the same with a bottle of distress ink and sprayed again. I like that effect a lot.
So I like the technique, just don't like the outcome of this project. However, this will be the base for something else...coming soon!
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