Applying repeated pigment to a shape while it is still wet can keep the tone dark. For example, load a brush with pigment and brush it onto the paper; while the shape is still wet, add more pigment to the section where you first started the stroke.
--Joyce Washor

About the Artist
Joyce Washor graduated from Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and also studied at the Woodstock School of Art, in Woodstock, New York. The author of Big Art, Small Canvas (North Light Books, Cincinnati, Ohio), Washor teaches at the Scottsdale Artists' School, in Arizona, and the Woodstock School of Art. She is represented by Horizon Fine Art, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; The Crane Collection, in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts; and The Lawrence Gallery, in Scottsdale, Arizona. For more information, visit www.joycewashor.com and http://JoyceWashorsDailyPaintings.blogspot.com.

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