Unless you enjoy scrubbing paint off with a rough brush, getting white back in a watercolour isn't easy. So I'm exploring gluing paper on top and painting over it.
I had some light Japanese paper. I tried to glue it with PVA and acrylics medium. It was very messy. Then I discovered Yamato Nori starch paste medium (it's acid-free) and rice paper (not sure it is acid-free) on Amazon. Both much easier to use and it seems to be easy enough to paint on top.
Not sure this is something I will use in the long term, but it's an interesting experiment. The Yamato Nori starch paste is great - it applies easily, comes in a bright green tube, it's not messy, and it sticks well. Will definitely buy another tube at some stage.
I need to look at it now and figure out what I need to do to highlight the bits I really like and tone down what's not so good.
Here is how it looked before applying a layer of watercolour and scribbles with Neocolor 2 crayons. This is the ugly duckling stage.
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