Craft · 6 pages · 12 min
Why the paint beads or blooms
Paint beads when the surface will not wet, and it blooms when extra water pushes pigment to an edge.
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From the opening
Beading and blooming are two different failures of a wash to lie down evenly. Beading is paint sitting in droplets because the surface refuses to wet, and blooming is pigment shoved into a ragged edge because water moved after the color was down. The opening covers refusal leaves round beads, a later flood moves pigment, and the rim marks the tide.
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Inside
- Refusal leaves round beads
- A later flood moves pigment
- The rim marks the tide
- Granulation is a different texture
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- Surface tension and wetting of paper
- Watercolor backrun or bloom