January 17th, 2001 ~ Day 3  A Winter Watercolor Workshop with Monte Guynes On Wednesday We Worked on Monte's Illustration Board Technique This is a technique which has been developed over a period of time by Monte and has become somewhat of a trademark style for him. It is quite different from painting on watercolor paper. Not only is the approach different, but as you can see here, so is the look. sandy  sandy This painting was done in the morning using Crescent #100 cold press surface illustration board. Most of the piece was painted directly onto the dry board without wetting the surface first. Monte painted with his usual panache as we all tried to keep up. Uniting the painting through texture and softness was later accomplished by scrubbing, scraping and spraying the surface with water. sandy "Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul." ~ W. Somerset Maugham See Monte's Afternoon Painting Sunday Night Demo / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday Previous Page See Monte Guynes' Memorial Tribute, Biography & More Paintings Home Page