Here is a doodelism painting done with a slightly different technique, using a dark, almost black paint for the underpainting which includes the outline of the drawing. The colour is called "neutral shade" and it is kind of a warm transparent ink-like hue. It lifts off the paper easily which allowed me to create some light areas after the paint was dried by using a moist brush with clean water. I was inspired to buy some nearly black paint after the recent visit to the National Gallery and then to the Old Port in Montreal where there was a lot of large oil paintings. One common factor, whether it was from a classical painting from antiquity, a renaissance painting, an impressionist, or a contemporary, was that they used a lot of bright colours and contrasting black and whites. In watercolour this is more difficult to achieve since the paint is thin and transparent, but I think the near-black paint here makes the drawing pop out a bit more. Normally I use the traditional English method for watercolour which states no black and no white paints are allowed to be used. I think this has a place, I'll try to use the black outline in the future but more for metallic or solid shapes.
6 x 8" (15 x 20 cm) cold press (B side) watercolour, June 2016
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