The Girl and the Schnauzer
 

Cindy Procious had some wonderful drawings over tea stained paper a few months ago and I have had it in my mind to see what I could do myself with the technique. An opportunity came up this week to do a demonstration for an ongoing holiday show and I took some hot pressed 200# or so Fabriano watercolor paper and rendered with charcoal pencil and pastel pencil for brown. I over painted some of the white with liquid watercolor paper, as I grabbed a prisma color by mistake for my white charcoal at first.
At any rate, I used the splashy look of the tea to reinforce the well known sensation of wet dog whiskers, common to Schnauzer owners!

Very intriguing technique!

Excellent drawing! Very well planned and executed. :thumbsup:

This is a different type of look for you - and you pulled it off so well! Unique and absolutely lovely. More, more!

Debra,

your works are always so "alive". I love seeing what you come up with, because there's always variety. This one is great!

However, I'm glad I don't know what wet dog whiskers feel like. I'll leave that up to the Schnauzer owners. :)