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MEDIUM: Watercolor on Aquabord™ with Scratching
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SIZE: 5" x 7"
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STATUS: For sale $175
"I've been immersed in black scratchboards lately so it was fun to pull out my watercolors and white-surfaced Claybord™. I've been anxious to try scratching a spider web, knowing those fine white fibers would be fun to create by scratching them through the surface. I decided a color background, faintly depicting the colors of the forest, would be more interesting than a solid black background. After all, it is in my woods where I see spider webs all the time, particularly when the morning dew has settled on them.
With the white clay surfaced panel, color is to be applied and later scratched to reveal the white underneath. I used Golden's QoR watercolors, limiting the choice to blue, green and yellow, and allowed them to blend abstractly. I spattered some of the same colors once the surface dried, and added some Fine-Tec metallic gold spatters for a different look.
One of Claybord's characteristics which make it ideal for watercolors is that you can re-wet the paint and lift it away. I made a stencil by punching three sizes of circles out of an old postcard. I layed this on the surface, dampened a tiny cosmetic sponge applicator, and wiped and blotted away the color one circle at a time. I randomly arranged the dew drops on the spider web fibers. After adding paint (with a tiny brush) to those white circles I scratched the web itself, using a pointed scriber tool Voila - my Mountain Dew was complete!"
