"Color" (sold)

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The profusion of color in the spring is especially noticeable right before Easter. Colorful displays in every store lift our spirits. It is also a reminder that every spring as God renews the plants, He also sent His Son to offer us a renewal of life.

Layering can create "special effects". That's what has happened in this piece. The first layer is soft colors mingling together with paste (recipe for cooking flour with water to create a paste that can be added to paint)

The colored paste was applied to wet paper with different colors overlapping to create the colorful and diffused background with no hard edges. The tulips were given to me by a dear friend which provided the image for me to draw and paint. Gouache was the medium...and even though it is an opaque watercolor, you can still see the background peeking through. The special effect was spontaneously created by layering in this fashion. You might want to try resurrecting some of your scraps of paste paper, getting our your gouache to see what happens. You'll enjoy the process!

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