Now I worked on the face and arms, using various shades - burnt sienna, yellow ochre, raw umber - the usual colours. I was also using chinese white and got a new tablet of titanium white to get a more opaque feeling. I basically wanted the painting to have more substance than the usual traditional watercolour techniques allow.
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So I did some more work on the painting after a very black phase. After a month of lounging around I did some more work on the T-Shirt. At this point I started using a mixture of dammar varnish, egg yolk and gum arabic. I wanted to achieve a more opaque look - which I would then paint over using transparent layers of watercolour and gum arabic and slow drying water colour medium (windsor and newton again). The dammar varnish was from Daley Rowney.
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