Early in elementary school, my favorite (and ONLY) niece, Anna asked me how come her water color paintings got all wrinkley while mine were flat?
So I introduced her to good watercolor paper, coldpress (rough texture) and hot press (smooth texture) and showed her how I tape or staple gun down the edges to a board before beginning to paint so the paper dries tight like a drum.
The only kid in her class to know how to stretch watercolor paper.
Nothing's too good for my favorite niece. ;-)
My illustration from Questions, by Lee Bennett Hopkins,
HarperCollins
The next question I had was more difficult to answer though... "How come when I paint water colors they are not nearly as good as yours?"
ReplyDeleteI never knew an answer so I took up photography :)
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Will you share your trick with your readers?
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