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Alter sketching the Dasic lines ot the painting with charcoal, Mr. Heus begins filling in the light colors. But because the rich green of the paper is a color often found in nature, Mr. Heus said, “when you put colors on that paper it comes alive — and that’s what’s out there.”
The technique, he said, enables him to play “beat the clock for three or four hours,” racing to complete the painting against the changing shadows and angles as the sun moves across the sky. It also, he added, means that he doesn’t have to “spend a lot of time covering white paper” — as he would with traditional white paper.
“I like to work fast, for three, four or five hours,” he said. “I don’t like to come back the next day — invariably something has changed. I like to do it in one sitting.”
The gouache technique, he said, attracted him at first because of its portability. All his paints can be carried in a small tin, and the only other necessary supplies are brushes, a container of water and his paper.
The opaque watercolors, combined with the green paper, are perfectly suited to the “visual texture” of Rappahannock County, Mr. Heus exSee
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