u/slightfaintingspell

I’m using Artagain 400 Series black paper. I wanted to try to do some slight blending of Polychromos before adding lighter highlights with Luminance.

Before using it on my actual piece, I tested some techniques using Gamsol and Vaseline on this paper with a few layers of Polychromos, and it pulled up the pigment nearly completely. I tried it with a cheap paintbrush and a q-tip and blotted both with a paper towel first.

Does this paper simply not have enough “tooth” for this kind of solvent blending? Or is it that I needed more layers of pigment? Or do you need to have barely any solvent on the tool?

If the first—is black pastelmat or Stonehenge Aqua then my only black paper option?