For today’s painting I decided to try again with the wax resist writing and then do a complete wash of colour over it.
An interesting result of using a small house painting brush for doing the wash was that it created horizontal lines going across + drips. Then, as I worked down the paper I wiped away some of the (drip) mark with the brush.
I worked over this with charcoal writing (eyes closed), and would have carried on to the bottom, except Kate mentioned that I should take a look (at the point the writing stops). I had been talking earlier about not wanting the result to be as balanced (and neutral in my view) as it often turns out. Too balanced = not exciting.
The other thing I find about stopping 3/4 of the way down, rather than going right to the bottom is that attention is paid to the underside of the writing, which I think is quite elegant and beautiful.
At the end (after dripping yellow, red and brown) I decided to add white drips finally, to link the first white wax marks to the ending.
