I’d never heard of Yupo before signing up for this amazing workshop with Carla Sonheim.

Since using this plastic watercolour ‘paper’ I have to admit to having a love/hate relationship with it. Yupo, being plastic, has a tendency to make the paint run and blend in odd ways.

Relationships take work sometimes and at first this one was pretty messy, and awful.

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With a bit of effort things got a little better…

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Sometimes taking a different approach can help.

Honestly, I suck at automatic drawing/painting. I decided to forego this route for now and sketch first. I used the bird from a previous post as a guide.

Okay, that was better and a lot easier for my mind to deal with. Seeing an image on paper, particularly when working with the Yupo, made painting much easier.

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I love fungi and again used some previous drawings as a sketch for painting my last but not final Yupo piece.

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I will not let Yupo get the best of me! There will be more…I just need to find time.

Now, onto the next piece for The Princess and the Pea!

 

 

 

 

9 Comments

  1. amy

    Thanks for sharing this! I had a package of it in my hand at the local art store yesterday, but it’s so expensive, and they didn’t have a smaller package. I kind of want just a little at first to experiment with! I have a hard time wrapping my head around plastic paper for watercolors.

    1. moongirl

      It is expensive! Luckily, the art store here had 20×26 inch sheets for under $4 each so I bought two and cut them down. I guess you can get it in different weights too, where some are more transparent.

  4. denthe

    I think that first picture looks amazing! I see more and more artists using yupo, it seems to become very popular. Never tried it though, I think I would have a love/hate relationship too …

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