Unbelonging

Post-grad life is really strange. Suddenly, I have no critiques, no deadlines, no professors waiting on thumbnails and progress work. It seems like just as I started developing an understanding of myself, my work, and my potential, I have to leave the one place where I could really thrive and talk to professionals who I have so much admiration for. If I started art school again in 2009 with what I know now, I could've done so much better.

Still, I'm really trying to create work on my own. This is the first piece I tried to really sit down and work on since I finished school.

Unbelonging (2014)

-watercolor, acrylic, chalk

WIP Photos

Masking fluid is really useful since watercolor's a transparent medium, but it's a bit fickle and really smelly. I bought the colorless kind, so it's really hard to see what I painted over and what I didn't. I guess that my fault. Masking fluid also is notorious for gumming up and ruining brushes because it contains rubber latex. 

I found it really useful to use warm water and frequently rinse my brush when painting the masking fluid on. Cold water makes the fluid harden quickly and stick to paintbrush bristles.

 It still does its job well. Plus, it's really fun peeling it off and seeing the crisp contrast it leaves.