Started painting the background

So the first thing I did was to go around the edges of the girl with masking fluid then when it had dried I cut out paper to her shape and filled in the middle of her with that....to be honest the paper could of gone horribly, I was just lucky it didn't.
I sprayed water onto the background and started adding the watercolour: sap green, indigo and winsor green. It didn't matter too much what it did as long as there was a general appearance of strips going up and down. You can see in the top left where the paper buckled and the watercolour pooled but in the end the paper dried flat so it's all okay....this is my first time working on stretched paper and I'm rather enjoying it.
After I finished working on the background the bit of paper protecting her was soaked, luckily mostly just with water and very little paint got through but I quickly ditched the paper....for the cling film and indigo layer that would come later I needed something far safer. I ended up replacing it with layers up on layers of cling film which stuck pretty well to the making tape and stopped it from roaming around.

Happy Samhainn/Halloween to you....wish I'd done something for it, ah well. :)