WIP Wednesday Wash


So, remember when I said that I thought I was going to have to add some washes to make my night time scene less "early morning" and more "night"?  


Well, "Ta Dah!!!"  :)



I started out with blobs of blue, black and red to make a purple wash...



...which looked sort of an eggplant-y once it was all stirred up. Even when I added the water, it still looked very dark, but when I tested it on the side, it looked like... 



The bottom wash, which I figured was too dark. 

So I added some more water in increments of about a 1/4 of a cup, and got the second version (above it) and then again (the very top version) which was my target colour. 



After the first, wash, I had this. Better, but still not dark enough. 

So I added colour directly to my wash, first a little blob of navy blue, and then added two more washes with more additions of navy blue...


and then added more black to the mixture and did two or three washes of the black.  When I started getting into the navy blues and blacks, I was adding washes to the pond water as well, to darken it up.


And this was the end result.

No, right?  

The water looks great, and it's certainly dark enough, but there's hardly any differentiation between the sky and the rocks. 

So I got out those original teals, blue-y greens and purples I started with, darkened them up with the additions of a drop or two of black and a drop or two of Prussian blue...



And that's what I ended up with.  Much better, no?


So, if you look at where it started, you can see that it's a big difference, and it doesn't look like morning or an overcast day anymore. Now, it actually looks like night. Yay!



You can see the progress side by side here (that pic is clickable if you want to look at it in a bigger size) - those four pictures represent 15-20 washes in total!

I'm totally in the home stretch now, I have probably only two or at the most three hours left on the piece. Phew!

Come on back on Friday for the big finish!

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P.S. - It's Wednesday, so I'm linking up with the Needle And Thread Network - please check out what other Canadian fiber bloggers are up to!

Kit Lang

15 comments:

  1. very cool Kit - I like seeing the progression shots all together.

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  2. Thanks for sharing the process pictures side by side - this way, I can truly see how the piece evolved. Thanks for a cool idea - and good luck with the rest of the work you still have to do, it already looks very much like a "Kit-did-this-one"-piece!

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  3. Hi Kit!
    I love how you share your design process. That is great and I know I will be coming back here to your blog later as I've a piece to do. I really need a grey...the second progression picture (reading from left to right) shows the color that I'm thinking of. I was thinking of using dyes on a PFD fabric, cut it out in the shapes needed and sew to a foundation that is dyed the color of a really stormy, windswept sky scene....oh, I don't know how to get the thing in my head to the fabric!!!! OIY!
    Your work is amazing and I look forward to Friday!
    Pam

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  4. Great.I felt like I was standing behind your shoulder as you worked it all out. Thanks

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  5. Thank you for sharing your process. It's amazing the difference between each picture until you've reached the end result. I'll be back on Friday:)

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  6. Thanks for showing us your process it helps to understand what you have done and I love the final result it truly does look like night now !

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  7. Wow! Very cool! I'm so intimidated when it comes to paint!! That's so fascinating!!

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  8. It definitely looks like night time now. It's lovely!

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  9. Been watching but not having the time to comment.
    You're alot like me.
    I love how you dive in there and take chances.
    What the heck, it's only paint and fabric. Some of my best pieces were mess-ups.
    Keep them juices flowing.

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  10. Perseverance..........pays off lol and yes, its a realistic night time!
    The moons reflections, reminds me of skimming stones across the water?
    Mind you Im on my 3rd glass of wine........I'll look again tomorrow when Im less coddled in vino lol and see ahat the reflection says to me then !

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  11. Love it! especially the purple.

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  12. @Carol - absolutely - I always say - "What's the worst that can happen?"

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  13. I knew it would be gorgeous!!

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  14. I like this -- especially seeing your process. I'm so inspired, in fact, I'm going to do a wash for the background of the hibiscus I am currently working on! Thanks!

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  15. I'm impressed with your technique and how well you show what you do.
    The phrase that gets me in trouble quite easily is : "How hard can it be?"

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