Today, a simple post. The crystaline form of salt transforming watercolour paintings is fascinating. Using salt crystals was a great learning experience. Truthfully, I was just drawing spheres and seeing how salt reacted with the paint. At one point I thought I might create a theme of planets and solar systems. As I played with the salt, I quickly discarded that notion. It was just a fun experiment.

The painting itself is ordinary, but I love looking at the coloured salt crystals. I used both large rock-salt and small table salt to see if they reacted differently. Photographing details, I found I loved the colours of the rock salt more than the painting. That’s why I thought they deserved the feature image place in this post. It took me a long time before I discarded them.

In the photographs below you can see how sprinkling grains of salt creates shifts in the depths of colour. The salt draws the liquid to it. Depending on the pigment in each colour, it reacts slightly differently. Generally, though, there is a spot of deeper colour where the salt crystal has lain.

Enjoy the colours in these crystaline beauties.

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