This little guy was one of three alpine newts that I presented for a commission. I’ve included a little of the “behind the curtain” typical evening scene.
I used Brusho which is appears as a dust of heavily pigmented colour. You can sprinkle it in water, or mix it to produce super saturated colour.
The grey I used on this newt is extremely strong, and I was asked to strip out some of the grey, specifically in the tail area to get in some blue accenting. I thought this was impossible, Brusho is very stubborn, but with freshly boiled kettle water I was able to lift the colour and get a decent amount of blue in.
What a revelation! And then I found you can use extremely hot water to lift quite a lot of colour from paper, including regular watercolours and ink. It’s not perfect but as you can see, I got a really good result removing a dark colour.
