Let random splodges work for you

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THROWN AWAY...Hold onto those paint splodges and random pieces that normally would hit the bin....

I happened to put my brush on some kitchen paper - it absorbed the paint from the brush!  When dry, it looked like a blue flower, so I used it and just added a few squiggles of pen.

ONE BLUE FLOWER

I CALL IT

'OUT OF THE BLUE'

When paint blooms

also called Run-backs, cauliflowers - method 2

Everyone has their own way of dealing with these annoying run-backs, but as I showed in my previous post they are easy to correct, so long as you are patient and really wait for the first layer of paint to completely dry.

I've another way of dealing with them and that's Cover them up.  Easy to do, but you have to make sure the paint you are adding, over the error, is more dense/heavier/thicker - less water with the paint in other words. 

then add some foreground rock

and it's finished...as easy as that.

Paint Splodges

PAINT SPLODGES...

Call them what you want, it's when the paint runs back on itself and eventually dries leaving what is known as   Run-backs - Blooms - Cauliflowers, all the same difference.  This is what I'm on about...

but don't panic.  

Some run-backs are good and I quite like to leave them if they are not

too obvious, it gives extra character (reason not an excuse).

However, it would be nice to know how to remove a run-back so

simply leave the painting to TOTALLY dry and I mean

REALLY DRY. 

When you're ready to tackle it, you will need a pot of clean water, not one like this which was on my desk

Use a synthetic brush (they cope better with this and saves you ruining your sables)

and have kitchen towel on hand too.

Wet the brush, but dab out the excess water then

rub over the 'run-back' area and quickly dab with the kitchen towel to dry the paper of

moisture and you have a painting minus run-back

Sorted!