I decided to try soaking and stretching my watercolor paper, as mentioned last week.
Step 1:
Those don’t look submerged, but they are. After a time, I put them out on my table and taped them down.
I didn’t have the right kind of tape, but they don’t call me the Queen of Substitutions for nothing. It turns out that the kind of tape you use is important. My paper didn’t stretch as it dried, it just pulled away from the tape and took on an undulating look. I re-taped it, but the damage was done.
I’m telling you this so you can avoid making the same mistake.
Watercolor Travel in Italy, Lesson 10: Venezia. Corte del Fontego.
My husband and I actually had an opportunity to go to Italy about five years ago. He had a business meeting there and I flew over and met him when the meeting was over. We traveled by train down to Genova and stayed at a sweet little Air bnb. When you looked out the window over the neighborhood, this is exactly the kind of thing you saw – laundry hanging out of people’s windows. I thought it was charming!
Does anyone use clotheslines to hang out their wet clothes anymore? We did it all summer long in the back yard when I was growing up. As a young married couple, we also hung our laundry out in the early days. When we lived in Indiana, we lived next door to an Amish family who (for obvious reasons) hung their clothes out on a line all year long, winter and summer. I was always surprised that the clothes got dry at all when it was icy cold out.
That’s all for today, folks.
I’ll probably delete this in the morning and hang it out to dry.
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