C_Cartwright_Jones
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Re: Spirals and Serpents
Posted on: 03/14/2009 04:25 PM
You're getting the hang of it!
1) move the brush quickly and confidently. If you brush slowly, the blue is more likely to feather. If you do get a bunch of feathering on the first round ... on the second application, turn that feathering into leafy, dainty elaboration.
2) the more times you do this, the more you'll recognize "feathery skin" when you see it ...... and then you can avoid it, or plan to play with it.
3) the larger you work, the less feathering will matter.
4) last summer I started working with larger brushes ... the biggest one in my brush batch .... the big flat brush instead of the round. That was a winner! I could turn the brush 90' to go from wide to narrow lines. The larger brush held more blue, and got darker stains. Tiny brushes have so much air contact vs vat .... hard to get good results. You can use little brushes .... just ... bigger is easier.
PS. Don't even dream of trying to thicken the vat. Complete waste of time. Use indigo the way it wants to be used: like a fast, loose watercolor technique.
Here's last summer's indigo using a large scale brush ....... I totally love this stuff! There's lots of pictures I just plain can't put online ..... but big and delicious is the way to go! Embrace the fear .... Try hip to ankle on a friend ........... go LARGE. You will be so glad you did!
Edited by C_Cartwright_Jones on 03/14/2009 05:00 PM
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