Watercolour Texture Medium(TM) is very useful and can be used to create a variety of (illusions) textures. For example, this week I have been painting what I call one of my ‘ composite’ paintings. These are paintings I create from bits and pieces of references I have collected and this week I been working on an African theme. I used texture medium on the body of the leopardand and in the top right corner of the picture where I have tried to give the impression of a cave and cave paintings. The texture medium is used for the rock walls.

African Faces 39h X 29h cms.

The texture medium can be used in various ways and you can use it before, during and after painting. You can spread the TM with a brush, a lining pen, an old credit card edge, a stick or an old broken comb, to give many different effects. It can also be spattered using an old toothbrush.

It is easy to get ‘carried away’ with excessive use of TM so I am careful to be very selective in its use but I hope you will try using it if you have not already done so.

Aileen

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