Blue Moon Atelier Journal

In this installment, I have begun the initial washes for the painting. For the outer background, I've chosen to do a salt-wash using two brownish tones, "Burnt Siena", which has more of a reddish tint, and "Sepia" which is a truer brown. I began by mixing lots of water and pigment together for each colour, then quickly applied them to the background. When doing a salt-wash, it's best to work as quickly as possible because the wetter your paint, the better the salt application will perform. I used a mixture of regular table salt, and coarse sea-salt on the background, brushing off the excess salt once the painting had dried.

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Tomorrow - the moon wash!