I think the combination of transparent watercolor ground with shellac soap really makes watercolor nice to work with. Let me explain a few of the issues with WC then why this combo seems to help:
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Enter Shellac Soap: It's shellac varnish, but it's like a soap so it mixing in with water. Shellac is basically bug guts and is water soluble, so put a bit of that in some clean water and you've got yourself a varnish in your binder. Now each layer goes on and stays on.
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But, the Shellac isn't ultra permanent like say acrylic is. You can still get it wet and remove it, it's just that *more watercolor* won't take it off. You don't even really notice it's in there, except that the watercolor film is a little waxy and seems to hold better.
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THIS then gives me an idea for my next experiment: Watercolors are very delicate, so you have problems shipping them and have to put them under glass making them hard to see. What if! You use the watercolor ground on a piece of aluminum, shellac soap, & varnish with acrylic?
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In theory this would make it permanent, and might look very interesting. One thing varnish does to a watercolor is make it a lot darker, so I'd have to experiment, but I may try it on a large version of this Tblisi painting.
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