Some Thick Cotton That Is

Or how not to photograph them paintings next time...

Actually, if a watercolor was photographed and then edited to black and white, is it still a watercolor or is it a...watermonochrome?

Greetings, Hive!

Finally, some warm weather here, at the 42 degrees latitude but hopefully not so much in the Arctic, not yet.

Some of you might know that I am working on something...I mean, I am working on some other thing right now, and I paused to make a post about something else, but the something I mean in the beginning of this sentence is somehow connected to the Arctic.

It is a card game about ancient Norse explorations. So, a month or to ago, I showed you some watercolor attempts at icebergs. And some artworks of @silver.art who's making this project happen.
She's experienced, I am just an amateur at drawing. Still, I try. It was my concept to make all the pictures for the game in watercolor. At some point, I decided to try a luxurious paper.

What you see above was painted on a 600-gram 100 % cotton sheet. It does not bend in a roll, it remains straight even if you only hold one end of it, at least in A4 format where it does not weigh too much and there's no risk of it breaking under its own weight.

The texture...

The texture was so deep you can see lots of small shadows here. Because the light I used was coming sideways through the window. I should have scanned it. I will, next time.

Here's how it looks in color:

I think I've shown this version in a ZapFic post some time ago on a blockchain far away.

Now, are we all new persons here? Whether we are or not, I think I shall soon begin to pester you again with the renewal of our process on the game we're working on. It somehow fell behind after they canceled the event that was to be a board-games fair of sorts. We were going to compete with a prototype. But then our focus shifted.

Looking for ways to return it and head for the Western Shores again.

Thank you for being with me!

Yours,

Manol