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WEll, frisket isn't always so easy... in fact, I have had more problems with frisket than just trying to do without it... first of all, I did put it over some nice bird paintings i did once, and then applied the background.. frisket was in place about a week. Took off 50% of the old paint I had down and basically ruined the painting.. oh well.
So here I am trying it again, this time on really heavy (400 lb) watercolor paper (or maybe it's not watercolor paper)... took me nearly an hour to take up the frisket and it tore the paper in multiple spots. It did NOT stick to itself. Near wore my hand raw rubbing it off... nothing else would take it off. Not ever going to use it on this kind of paper again!
This is a painting of Sam, an African grey we were given recently... nice bird. I did the background first and frisketed out Sam
Here, the next day, I finished the painting of Sam on the torn paper surface, and it worked out OK... thankfully lots of detail stuff... a large area of wash would probably not have worked.
Nice recovery Bob . . . it looks like it worked out well in the end. The painting turned out very nice is what I mean. Obviously the frisket was not worth the trouble in that case.
As I mentioned before, I'm not a big frisket fan and don't use it often. It can help me in some cases, but from what you say, I may never try it on the heavy weight paper.
