Ballroom watercolor painting - Ink resist technique
This is the final Ballroom dance watercolor painting. It uses the ink resist painting techinque and watercolor is used throughout the final painting. It is a 15 x 22 inches watercolor painting on cold press watercolor paper. On this final painting I have added much shading on to the watercolor painting. More layers of watercolor wash is being added on various areas so that the dancer is more focused and stand out a bit more.
Ink resist watercolor painting - Ballroom dance passion painting
I have completed the ink resist watercolor painting by painting in all the areas surround by the ink outline with watercolor paint. I use watercolor paint right out of the tube. Continue reading
Ballroom Dance Painting - Watercolor Ink Resist Technique
After the Tempera paint is being washed away together with the permanent black ink, watercolor is applied on the cold press watercolor paper after it is completely dried. I use watercolor paint straight from the tube and fill in the areas between the black lines. It was fun filling in and doing this stage of ink resist watercolor. Gouache or acrylic paint can also be used at the same time.
Watercolor Ballroom Dance Painting - Ink resist technique
Ink resist watercolor technique - Dance Passion
The above photo shows the washing process for the ink resist technique on the ballroom dance painting. All the permanent ink except for the black lines etched into the paper is being washed away together with the tempera paint underneath. It will take several wash with changes of warm water to wash away all the tempera paint off the 150 lb cold press watercolor paper. The watercolor paper was then leave it in the water to soak for about 10 minutes and rinse again with a final rinse. After that the paper is clipped on a board or hand it up to dry. After it is completely dry, watercolor paint will be aplied on in layers to achieve the desire effect on the ballroom dance painting. I shall try and use the colors right out of the watercolor paint tube to get a different look.
Ink Resist watercolor techinque - Ballroom dance passiion
The above photo shows the ink resist ballroom dance watercolor painting after the wash and is bing clip on a board to dry before watercolro paint is being applied.
Ink resist watercolor painting - Ballroom Passion #2 - Step 1 Sketching
This is another ink resist watercolor painting on the theme of ballroom dancing. The photo above shows the sketch of the painting on 150 lb Arches watercolor paper. Next step will be using a liquid resist to paint the lines and areas that eventually will receive the black permanent ink.
Ink resist watercolor painting - Step 2 Paint lines with frisket.
The above photo shows step #2 which is outlining all the lines with frisket or other masking fluid. These outlines will later turn into black lines when the permanent black ink is applied. I use Pebeo drawing gum as my masking fluid. After all the lines and areas that are covered with masking fluid are dried we can go on to the next step which is to paint the whole painting with white Tempera or any color tempera paint you desire. Tempera is a water base paint which can easily wash off from the watercolor paper later.
Ballroom dance watercolor painting - Ink Resist Technique
Continue with the Ink Resist Technique on ballroom dance painting. The painting is done on 150 lb watercolor paper. After all the watercolor layers are dry, gouache is put on top of the watercolor for accent. Little squres of gouache has been painted on top like a patteren effect and also along some of the ink resist lines. This gives a much needed contrast and more interesting color effect for the finished painting.
Dance Passion - Watercolor Ballroom Dance Painting
This is the Ballroom Dance Painting I did in Watercolor using the Ink Resist technique. This is not the final painting. The painting is at the stage where watercolor is being applied to the Ink Resist outline. Windsor and Newton Professional watercolor is used here on 140 lb cold press Arches watercolor paper. After all the watercolor layers are dry, I will use gouache paint on top to make it more interesting. The final painting should be all finish by next post. It is really fun to do this ink resist technique and I think I shall do more in the future.
Ballroom dance art painting - Ink resist
Ink resist art techinque involves the use of permanent black ink, tempera paint, watercolor paint, gouache paint or acrylic paint. At this stage after the watercolor goes through the wash and is completely dried, watercolor, gouache and or acrylic can be painted on. I use watercolor and start to paint around the permanent ink lines left behind by the water bath. Basic gradated wash is used with more emphesis on the color than the value. Layes of watercolor is being applied one after the other when the previous layer is dry.
Watercolor Ink Resist painting progress
The above shows the progress on the watercolor ink resist painting using watercolor after removing the ink and tempera from the cold press watercolor paper.