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    15×11 mixed watermedia done today. In this step by step I am showing how to rework what I considered a failed painting into a landscape. It doesn’t take too long to find a bad painting you want to improve upon and this one done in 2009 of a Victorian couple was no exception (a WetCanvas endeavor). After deciding to do trees the rest was obliterating the background, first with gouache to see how it would look, then filling in with various Montana acrylic markers. A black marker and Caran D’Ache watersoluble wax crayons were used last to accent and punch up the composition. Very little of the original is now visible except in left foreground and within the tree trunks, branches, and limbs. See the other steps below from beginning to finished version :cool:


    BEFORE a watercolor titled Strolling


    First step: Drawing or sketching with black Tombow brush pen over the work; you have to ignore what is under it :rolleyes:


    Second step: Covering background with white gouache and Coastal Fog (Cheap Joe’s). Don’t give up at this stage :eek: just keep fingers crossed :crossfingers: and keep on :thumbsup: until there is nothing else you can do to it :lol:
    C&C welcome ;)

    Kay

    Moderator: Watermedia, Mixed Media, Abstract/Contemporary

    #531258

    Very innovative!

    Christel

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    maryinasia
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        Cool!

        #531252
        HarvestMoon
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            You are amazing!

            Harvest Moon 🐐

            #531253
            lalflen
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                Awesome! Looks like the couple in the original painting are stepping into the landscape. How cool!

                Happy Painting
                Linda

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                Bumpa
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                    Great save!
                    really liken the result, vibrant and punchy

                    #531255
                    clode
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                        Yesss!

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                        #531250

                        Thank you all!

                        Kay

                        Moderator: Watermedia, Mixed Media, Abstract/Contemporary

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                        clode
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                            I never dared to do that … personally I often spent the whole table with sandpaper and put gesso everywhere .. before doing anything else but I discovered that this way of doing under- Underlying the original colors and animate the new paint
                            Thanks for this tutorial!

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                            #531251

                            Yes, I do these a lot, and thanks for looking and commenting.

                            Kay

                            Moderator: Watermedia, Mixed Media, Abstract/Contemporary

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