Since my last post I’ve been shopping. My inks are similar colours to the watercolours I’m used to working with and mixing. The tracing papers are two heavier grades than the cheap stuff I have been using for this project so far:
I’ve made the two images I’ve worked from to date using ink on stretched 112g tracing paper. The paper did tear a little in this image once I’d painted on it, but not as much as the original thin paper did. The colours are more solid on this thick paper, even against the window:
With this image the heavy paper withstood plenty of wetting and inking and did not tear. Against a window the colours remain vibrant. Where I’ve applied thicker layers of pigment, there is a new feeling of depth to the image when light comes through it. It is slightly 3D, and even though my painting is not so good as in some earlier versions, this means there is a slight – weird- feeling of movement.
