Sandpaper/wet & dry
papers are ideal surfaces for painting landscapes.
They can be used with a
single medium e.g. Acrylic or Gouache (or Gouache over Acrylic), or
they can be used as a substrate for mixed media paintings using
paints and either soft pastels or oil pastels on the top layers.
Because there is a
slight drag on the paintbrush as it's moved over the surface of the
sandpaper, a broken brush stroke is created. When painting on
sandpaper, the look is almost like a velvety pastel painting even
though you have used paint. This creates a look that is hard to mimic
using other surfaces if using paint (texture paste can be applied to
canvas board to achieve a similar effect, but it may not cover
uniformly).
If you are painting in
black & white, then very realistic scenes can be rendered –
especially the countryside with wide expanses and gathering clouds.
I have included an
example of a small painting I did on grey aluminium oxide paper. The
longevity of such a paper is obviously a concern, however if you want
to experiment without having to spend out on textured pastel papers
then this substrate is ideal. Also it is better to have a finished
piece of art on something that may be to hand in the house, rather
than wasting time phoning or going to the shops looking for textured
pastel papers, that they might or might not stock. You could be
thinking about producing art while waiting for your ordered paper to
arrive, or you could actually get on with it!
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