Wrinkling technique

Following the black and white landscape painting, I was introduced to a new technique – wrinkling.

Wrinkling is used to provide texture. I crushed the paper to be used into a ball. I then smoothed out the paper and gently run a loaded, not too wet, brush over it, defining the shape of the mountains.

In a little pot, I prepared a rather liquid blue paint that I then poured onto the paper, in the desired location. Once dry, I worked on the ‘texture’ of the mountain, just adding different sorts of trees here and there. I finally worked on the foreground, just with various shades of grey.

On the mounted work, the creases disappear and the texture remains.

And it was also my first two original paintings!