Words of Athos by Tatter-Hood

A look at how a recent piece for an art show was made.

- Art masking fluid applied over lines.
- Watercolour wash of walls and floor.
- Beginning to remove masking fluid from paper.
- Ripping the paper by removing the masking fluid (aah!)
- Beginning to paint watercolour base layer of objects (skin, hair, etc).
- Continuing to apply watercolours and fixing rip
- Beginning to add shading with watercolours, copic markers and pencil crayons
- Further details and shading

Finished piece here!

VampireAngelDarkSoul Featured By Owner Jul 25, 2011 Student General Artist

Amazing Art!!

SaskiaDeKorte Featured By Owner May 2, 2011 Professional General Artist

hey this is quite impressive, may I ask what paper you use?

Tatter-Hood Featured By Owner May 2, 2011

I used Strathmore Bristol Vellum (this one)...at first I couldn't recall and was going through all of my watercolour papers, but then I remembered I chose that bristol; it worked fine with watercolours, it took my pens and pencils better, and since I was doing tests and was sure I was going to screw up multiple times

I wanted to use something a bit less expensive.

SaskiaDeKorte Featured By Owner May 2, 2011 Professional General Artist

so it didn't go all warpy and nasty on you when you applied the watercolours? I really like watercolours, and I should really start using them again, but I can't afford expensive paper either

Tatter-Hood Featured By Owner May 2, 2011

during testing it totally warped and bubbled and spewed hate everywhere. I think if it was a larger piece, I would have tried treating it first in a tub of water, but for this small guy I found that taping it down securely was enough to prevent it from warping (mostly). You can see along the top it did a tiny bit of warping (but it flattened down and wasn't noticable once I put it in the frame) [link]