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Yey

my fist fan art. I'm pretty proud over this piece. I used much salt in this which I, after finishing the painting, thought was pretty funny since she is supposed to swim in the ocean and ocean=salt water

I did as the moviemakers, cencured her...cencured parts, with hair

This is for

contest.
Using salt in paintings, and by that I don't mean painting with salt water, is very fun and you can get a lot of cool effects. In this piece I used salt at the top and on when doing her fishtail. It's a little tricky though, since it depends on which paper you use and how much water. Different paper have different abbilities to soak up water, so if you want to use salt on a piece you should try how the paper and the colours behave first. If the paper is good at soak up water you should add more water than if the paper is slow at soak up the water. When you add the salt, it starts to saok up the water and the colour in it (the wet colour, not the dried one below if there is one) and the result therefor depends on how much water you've been using. Lots of water, but not to much, will have the effect that you can see at the top of this painting. Little water, and the salt won't soak up as much water and the effect not as visible.
If you use too much water, the salt will dissolve and you won't be able to take it away. You get almost the same effect though, but the paper will be sparkling from salt-crystals

which is a nice effect.
The most important thing when using salt in a painting is that you have to wait untill everything is dried until you take the salt away. Otherwise it wont be as good...or you will simply ruin it, and you will have to do it again...

But if you want to succed in getting a good result you should try and try until you got the hang of it

Syrena (c) Disney
art (c) me