Birch Tree Demo - Page 6

Now it is time for the finishing touches. This and the following steps require that you allow the paper to dry...so go have a cup of coffee...or use your blow drier if you are in a hurry.

Now, on dry paper, you can add more calligraphic marks - darker blisters - that will stay where you put them, instead of bleeding into other washes.

After allowing your marks above to dry....

 

...mix a new clean puddle of ultramarine blue - lots of water. Then, using a flat brush, paint a stripe down the shadow side of each birch trunk (the side opposite the starting point of your scrape marks).