Thread: Resist (noun - visual arts)

Hi Chris K & Ilona! The painter uses usually this technique of application: he/she directly draws on the support with watercolor paint and later, through the technical " wet on wet ", proceeds with caution the drawing with oil paint. As watercolor paint [water borne] is not compatible [in chemical terms] with paint wax/oil borne, that gives an effect called " cissing ". There will be some parts of...

Muchísimas gracias por su atención. He aprendido un montón, pues ya tengo ganas de tomar una clase de arte!

Perhaps "se llaman repelantes porque repelan la tinta de acuarela donde se están aplicados." Or "porque donde se están aplicados repelan la tinta de acuarela." But check with a native on how that sounds. By the way, don't you have it backwards?: it's the resist that repels the watercolor, right?

Muchísimas gracias por su atención. He aprendido un montón, pues ya tengo ganas de tomar una clase de arte!