I’ve been trying to use black gouache since taking a workshop from Mark Mehaffey last fall. Decided to try coating the paper first with the gouache and then trying ink on the spinner after coating the paper with the black gouache. Then I could selectively remove some of the spinner tracks, either by painting over the ink or washing the gouache and ink off. Here’s the first result after coming off the spinner.
After adding ink on top of gouache.
This really is confusing and doesn’t have any focus. So, covering up some of the acrylic with more black gouache proved easy. Here’s the next result.
Better, but probably needs a little more defining.
A couple things still bother me about it, and I’ll work on those and post a new (and better) image next time.