self-portrait

I tried making one large painting – the collage was on a full sheet of watercolor paper. But I was too intimidated, so I cut it into 4 pieces.

First I tried using watercolor, but didn’t get the coverage I wanted. I was hoping some of the background to show through. But only a little. When that didn’t work, I moved to gouache.

Gouache is somewhere between watercolor and acrylics…well, to me it seems that way. Here’s the first painting that emerged from the collage.

I like it. It’s not exactly what I expected but it was fun.