White Flowers

A bit of watercolor on Yupo paper. I love the way the colors ebb and flow with a life of their own on this paper. It is also very easy to erase. You can wipe color off very easily to get back to the white. It isn't really paper but slick and kind of plastic-y. Yupo is actually polypropelene.   

White, Diana Trout

Drawing with pencil on it is thrilling. It reminded me of drawing on a litho stone all those years ago. That alone was ridculously satisfying. I used the Derwent watersoluble sketch pencils. Yupo and watercolor is a fragile marriage. The paint rubs off even when completely dry. 

I'll play around and see what it can do. Maybe try some varnish that would make it work in bookarts.

Comments

[Paula Bogdan]

Beautiful! I'm loving the colors as well...it all reminds me a water garden.

[Rebecca]

So pretty!

[Diana Trout]

Thanks, Paula, now that you mention it, yes, it does feel like a water garden

[Diana Trout]

thank you, Rebecca. The Yupo is an interesting surface

[Wendy @ the Late Start Studio]

Would you do something like this on video? I love the almost marbled look of the paint - soft yet dramatic.

[Jacque Chinnery]

I have some Yupo paper but I haven't tried it yet....you are inspiring me! I love this painting.