Backgrounds

There are lots of ways to do the background of your painting.

Here you will see some examples of types of technique.

 This is an example of the use of salt and two colors to give a textured background

 Here is an example of multiple colors blended and also hard edge to give the effect of moving water.

 This shows multiple color but without salt and trying to eliminate the hard lines.

 Think of the soft focus of a background when you take a photo and the focus is on the foreground leaving the background fuzzy, but suggesting there are more flowers in the back, but they are out of focus.

 Water effect is shown in the next two photos.  The example below is a master at making the background look like light on the water.  We will give these all a try, so bring your sample to practice on.