solitaryVSong
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Thanks Nick, I do tend to use masking fluid quite a lot. Working with coloured pencils for a while has got me in the habit of reverse colour. All the lights and brights first.
I tend to draw my subjects out in a very light pencil quite loosely and then I use a masking fluid rubber pointed thingy (I am hopeles at technical names ;-) )and paint masking fluid lines where I want them. Not necessarily an outline. However, because the deer was an actual photo reference taken into the sun, the edge of that one are all very light.
I do like this method, it means I can indeed splash the paint with a little more abandon...||
I've always avoided maskling fluid thinking that it would get in the way of spontaneity even though its purpose is the opposite. But you show how well it can be used. There was something that immediately struck me about the paintings and Nick has pointed out exactly what it is. Continue with your painterly abandon!