This is acrylic, molding paste, tissue paper and pencil on watercolor paper. I spent about two hours doing this. I am trying to warm up and become more comfortable with the materials. My challenge is that I want every stroke to be perfect, every color to mix exactly, every technique implemented to come out exactly as I envisioned. But I am learning that there are no exacts. I think that this painting is quite overworked. I lost some of the detail in the lower portion of the painting by covering it up with more paint. There comes a time when more is just more and you risk turning the paint into mud. Below is the painting before I started adding more paint. In both painting you will notice a slight rippling. This is because I took the photo while the paper was still damp. I usually like to work on canvas, illustration board or a more sturdy canvas, but since these are experiments, i thought watercolor paper would do just fine.
A stage or two before I added more paint to the paper.
Here is another one I did later on in the day....
Close up and cropped
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