This was one of my first draft paintings for a commission, it’s a little rough round the edges but it helped me decide what I was going to do with the background around this little newt here. In the final version I decided to simplify the background and not build it up so much into huge saturated clouds of colour.
I also had some buckling issues and finally learned how to solve all buckling by using glass sheets as a press instead of the wooden blocks I was using before. The glass kept the painting wet for a lot longer allowing for the moisture to permeate much more slowly throughout the paper making for much flatter results.