“Much of my work depends on typical wash-on-wash color layering, but as the painting progresses and becomes more opaque, I use white acrylic gesso to add light values, body and texture. The gesso-laden passages give the painting a meatier surface. I mix the watercolor pigment with the gesso on a separate palette from my watercolors and overlay dark passages with light opaques.” ~ Dale Laitinen, from the June 2011 issue of The Artist’s Magazine (Running Water: Four artists reveal their methods for conjuring wondrous landscapes with fluid acrylic and freeflowing watercolor).
Hydroelectric (watermedia, 29x41) by Dale Laitinen
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