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Sand resist in watercolor?
Several years ago I learned how to use sand to illustrate a weathered stucco wall in the South of France. It involved wetting the paper (just water, or a light wash?), sprinkling sand (let it dry, or continue wet?) and dropping in other colors. When dry and the sand was brushed off the effect was very like the mottled stucco wall. I've since forgotten the exact method-- does anyone know?
edit: Thanks, Jay, but that was not what I meant. I am doing a watercolor from a photo I took of a flower-covered balcony in Venice. The wall of the building is very old and mottled, and this is the effect I am trying to remember how to reproduce.
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- raymond mLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
I have never heard of that technique. What you could do is similar to what you describe but paint the wall last and after everything was dry, brush the sand off.
You are asking how to create texture.
That's not what I would do however to get the effect you are looking for. I would use a thin wash of the base color leaving white showing in random areas. After the paint is dry, use a dry brush technique with the side of the brush hair to skip across the area. You could also spatter small drops in the area. Keep in mind only small areas need be done, and only a suggestion of the texture. The viewer's eye will fill it in and see it.
Source(s): watercolor painter - JayLv 710 years ago
All you need do is to add sand to to your paint until you get the consistency you want. You can also while it's wet use a dry roller on the wall and it will bring portion of the paint out like stucco.There is another way to achieve a stucco look using dry wall paste directly out of the can. Use a trow to put it on the wall then use a dry paint roller to bring out the little stippling that looks like stucco . Then paint it using a stucco color it has lasted over ten years so far and has never came off the wall.
