Watercolor over gel medium : Painting a postcard for the Twitter Art Exhibit

Postcard sized Art for the Twitter Art Exhibit

The Twitter Art Exhibit is a great initiative, open to all artists worldwide. All you need is to have a twitter account, artists are sending postcard sized original works of arts and proceeds go to Art Division, a nonprofit program supporting underserved young adults (18-25) in L.A.’s Rampart District, in preparation for careers in the visual arts. See all details here: http://twitterartexhibit.org/
For this small work I wanted to try something different, I wanted to have both some pencil drawing and watercolor paint, but I wanted the drawing to as much a part of the painting as the paint.

I started by making a detailed pencil drawing on paper.

To fix the pencil drawing, I painted on top with acrylic gel medium.

The paper I did draw on is a bit fin, so I glue it on a thicker watercolor paper using gel medium and a brayer.

I then paint with watercolors on top of the gel medium once it dried. It is very similar to painting on yupo paper as you can take off any excess paint with a tissue paper.

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