Peter Lau Ink resist painting - Ballroom dance watercolor

In my last post I have found that all the watercolor paint I use directly from the tube makes the ballroom painting too bright in color.  Sort of like a poster paint.  I have since try to put clean water on certain areas trying to lift some of the watercolor paint off the paper.  I have succeed in some areas where those watercolors are not staining.  After much lifting of the watercolor off the cold press watercolor paper, it is still not enough.  Next, I immurse the whole sheet of finished watercolor paper into a water bath just like I did before for the ink resist.  I use a large brush to brush some of the paint off from the paper under water.  I then dry it overnight and that created the result show above.  I will finish it with more layers of watercolor tomorrow to give it more a three dimension look especially on the background.