It helped leaving my brushes and paints and stuff on the kitchentable!
As we say here in Sweden: "Med hjärtat i halsgropen"
(with the heart in my throat) I wet the entire painting completely and
I put it between two flat pieces of glas/plastic-board to dry flat.
The painting was NOT flat before this so I had to try this. I was affraid
that I would make the colour, especially the paynes grey float
around the paper. But I like the result. I helped it along a bit
with putting a piece of strong paper between the plastic/glas-board
(on the backside of the painting!) to soak up the remaining water.
I´m satisfied with the result. Hope you like it too!
with putting a piece of strong paper between the plastic/glas-board
(on the backside of the painting!) to soak up the remaining water.
I´m satisfied with the result. Hope you like it too!
So happy that you wanted to stop by my blogg!
Wellcome back!
Félicitations, chère Catharina.
ReplyDeleteJe suis heureux de voir ta nouvelle peinture.
Bisous :)
Thank you Olivier :)
DeleteCiao Catharina,
ReplyDeletebel lavoro, rende vita al soggetto ! Bello"
Ciao, ciao, Floriana
Thank you for the visit Floriana :)
DeleteHi Catharina, so lovely to see you painting again! I feel that I have let my painting fall by the wayside lately so you have inspired me. You've done a lovely job with the red capsicum!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your visit Wendy and hope that I inspire you to paint some more too.
DeleteCatharina thank you for your recent visit to my blog and for your comments. I greatly appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteYour watercolour is lovely. The reflections work very nicely.
For flattening the painting i just spray mist the back of the artwork and then sandwich it between two hard surfaces such as a table top and a board. I then put all those art books i never read anymore on top as weights. Overnight should suffice. This way you won't risk those lovely colours running. Hope you are having a beautiful painting day. Blessings, Ross.
Thank you Ross :)
DeleteYou painting is lovely Catharina. May I recommend this video on stretching a watercolour painting. :)
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3D5evJYtmA
Thank you Ingrid I will have a look!
DeleteIt's great to see you painting again Catharina, it's been far too long. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThis is very good and I'm glad you succeeded in flattening it. Great work!!
I HOPE I can stay with it John. My trick right now is to leave all the things on my kitchentable. I can´t leave it there for ever, but maybe a little now and then. Thank you for coming by!
Deletethank you for visiting and commenting on my paintings. Your paintings are lovely. Watercolor is such a challenge;i just can't get over the ability to paint over mistakes and the freedom acrylics give me. I suppose it is because i am an impulsive emotional painter. Happy painting.
ReplyDeleteI am also impulsive when painting so I destroy alot of the paintings. It´s hard to stop in time!
DeleteThank you Cathy.
Hi Catharina:) You did not destroyed it all! On the contrary. You made a beautiful painting. I'm glad it worked out. You have to try it all before you can say: I tried it all :) Hugs:)xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you Renate! I´m glad it succeded.
DeleteBeautiful painting with oh so difficult watercolor.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to see you visiting, so glad to visit you back. So glad to share the joy of painting and blogging.
It is difficult Irina. I´m struggling! Thank you :)
DeleteUn resultado muy bello y sugerente. Enhorabuena! Un abrazo.
ReplyDeleteThank you Jesús :)
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