Recipe for Love - From Sketch to Good Paper

The last post you saw was the rough-out sketch on graph paper for this piece. As you can now see, the design was transferred to watercolor paper. I managed this with a light table, placing the watercolor paper on top of the sketch and tracing the boxes onto the watercolor paper. Then I drew and lettered in the boxes. Next, I added watercolor to the piece, making sure I first brushed my choices of color as I progressed on to a swatch to assure compatibility of colors. Once this stage was completed, I let it set overnight to come back at it with New Eyes in the morning.

You might notice some tape around the edges of this piece. It is Scotch Removable Tape and it comes in handy. I just learned about this little trick. You'll see how this comes into play in my next post.