I don’t normally paint this much greenery, but sometimes you have to step out of your comfort zone.
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Graham, that snowman is just magical !..love it.
Chris…I know what you mean…if I had my way, every painting I did would be purple glitter. In fact I hate green landscapes…not sure why I paint them…ha ha…
That painting is lovely…
Yesterday I wanted to do a snow scene and put the paint down and sprinkled it with salt. Couldn’t find my hot air gun, so put it to dry…and painted this one instead.
Went back to the other one, once it had dried and could I get the salt off the paper ?..NO…what a nightmare…anyone got any tips?..what salt do you prefer to use etc…
I will probably end up wetting the paper to get it off and then just start again…knowing me, it will probably end up as a green landscape,…ha ha.
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I just use ordinary table salt. I only have varying degrees of success with it, but it can give some nice soft marbled backgrounds.
For falling snow, I prefer splattering the paper with masking fluid by flicking it off the end of an old brush.
Chris, you put the wrong link on the daily listing…I have just put a reply with the correct link for you…too many gins last night?..lol
I used splattering with gouache on my last painting…I am far too impatient to wait for masking fluid to dry…ha ha
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Thanks Brenda @teabreaks. I was half asleep and had too many tabs open. I wish it was a case of too many gins. More a case of a hungry cat wanting his breakfast who was adamant I wasn’t having a lie in this morning.
I have corrected the link on daily listings now. Thanks again for being so eagle eyed.
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I’m not a huge fan of masking fluid to be honest. It hums to high heaven when it’s past its best.
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I’ve never even heard of using salt for snowy pictures! Although I expect that’s just for watercolours (and I just realised I’m not sure I’ve actually painted a scene where it’s snowing 
). I think with my acrylics I’d go for splattering too (I normally do it for my stars).
The painting you posted looks lovely though! Hopefully the other one can be rescued.
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Ha ha Kim…I scraped the salt off and put it on the table beside me…upside down…mmm…The salted sky became a mountain and I painted another sky…ha ha…
I will take pics tomorrow when the light is better…
Good job I never plan what to paint…
I’ve tried salt on watercolour so many times and had success, I think, once! I’ve tried it at all stages of wetness/dryness - it’s a great effect when it works, if only i could get it to do it!
Great idea to turn the picture upsidedown Brenda!!
Brenda @teabreaks, I thought you were going to say you scraped the salt off and put it on your chips!
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I have had some good results with salt but this weekend it didn’t work…upside down is good.
CHris, what a good idea…blue salt on my chips…reminds me of the little blue packet of salt that used to be in my crisps…I could start a whole new business…ha ha…
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great painting Graham…
Here is yesterday’s painting that started life as a salty snow scene, got turned upside down and ended life as a mountain landscape…not best pleased with it but still.
It isn’t listed yet, as being on the daily listing, I stagger them (STAGger Graham) …
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One more new listing for me today - a little graphite drawing of a big elephant!:
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Helen, that is fantastic x
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Fantastic work Helen.
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Brenda, I’m impressed that you managed to turn your salt disaster around to come up with a good painting.
I tend to keep my disasters for future reference to remind me how not to do it.
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Thankyou! I do love pencil drawing!
Ha ha Chris, if I kept all my disasters I would be snowed under with paintings…lol…I am always painting over the top of them…
today I shall be doing crochet because I painted two paintings yesterday and that is TWO more for the recycle pile ha ha…
At one art class I went to, one of the ladies often used to spend the two hours working on a watercolour, which she would then decide she didn’t like and would soak it in the bath for a while and take off all the paint, and start over the following week!
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