Valuable lesson: hot glue is not an alternative to masking fluid! My thought process was thus: "Watercolor paper is really heavy and the hot glue will only be in little dots...so it should just Peel right off!" This I did in an attempt to make a starry sky watercolor wash.
No...no. it doesn't just peel off. Of course it took a layer of paper with it. Not all the dots did this. The very tiny ones worked just fine. The bigger the dot, the more paper ripped off. Also, this watercolor paper is heavier and of a bigger grain than I'm used to. I got some pretty streaky looking washes as a result of not soaking the paper enough. Also because of the harsher grain, my trick of using salt to create star-like marks barely shows. :/ Lame sauce. I'm glad these are just being used as examples and not for anything serious!
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