Start with stretching 12 oz cotton duck onto 12″X16″ stretcher strips. Isolate the cotton duck with a coating of Rabbit Skin Glue. Apply an oil emulsion (Rabbit Skin Glue + Marble Dust + Linseed Oil) to the cotton duck. Let all dry for a minimum of 5 days. Start your drawing using Raw Umber oil paint mixed with a drying oil medium, such as Groves’ 19th Century Copol Varnish mixed 50/50 with turpentine or the Ralph Mayer drying oil medium (1 ounce Damar Varnish + 1 ounce Linseed Oil + 5 ounces of turpentine + 15 drops of Cobalt Siccative), thin to a light cream consistency and apply using a round brush. Let drawing dry for a few days and finish with normal painting techniques or adopt a more egg tempera method if the drying time does not interfere with the finished results.
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QoR Watercolor Ground
The completion of the inking of the original graphite drawing is done. The next step is to reduce the intensity of the contrast back down to the graphite drawing. The overall reason for this, because the drawing was done on D’Arches 140 LB. CP., is to prepare for QoR Watercolor painting. Each step has been done to optimize this endgame with QoR Watercolors. It was just a natural result that the QoR Watercolor Ground would reduce the inked illustration back toward the original graphite drawing.
This is the image used for QoR Watercolors
