An Audience

As I spend more time wrestling with my watercolour paints, I have realised that as well as applying ever more colour to the paper it is also possible to remove paint from the surface to lighten an area. This scene was created to experiment with ways of removing paint from certain places to create the effect of the light beams onto a stage.

I am quite happy with the resulting painting, which looks broadly as I had imagined it. However, I found this approach to painting relatively stressful as all the work of completing the background had to be done before then risking the ruin of the whole scene during the paint removal phase.