Palayan Sunset - Stage Three

Next, I used some of my watercolors and the brush dipped in plain tap water, in order to spread the pastel around and make a background 'wash,' which was to form a kind of 'underpainting.' The plan was that I would add subsequent layers of detail, in order to build up to a finished painting. Unfortunately, as you can see; even though I was using watercolor paper, it was far too thin a grade and it rolled up like a swiss roll as soon as it started to dry out...!!!