Mars Black Luminous Watercolours ground pop and also provides an exciting, unexpected background for all your standard watercolour paints. Gouache, Soft pastels, graphite, and watercolour pencils show up beautifully on both the buff and black. It used to be that watercolour painters had few options beyond white paper or a few coloured boards. Now, you can turn almost any surface into a toned or black ground for watercolour painting, as well as gouache, collage, pastels, pencils, and mixed-media work.

It's so easy to apply Ground over an area within a painting that needs rescuing or to work on different compositional areas. You can also lift and scrub without damaging the painting surface.

Daniel Smith Watercolour Mars Black Ground allows you to paint with watercolours on stretched canvas, fabrics, wood, plaster, metal, plastic, or glass. Apply it and let it dry to create an absorbent ground layer on almost any surface. This ground is pigmented with Mars Black pigment.

• Mars Black Watercolour Ground-4 oz jar
• Allows you to use watercolour paint on most surfaces
• Contains Mars Black pigment
• Handmade in the USA

Let your imagination soar with DANIEL SMITH Watercolour Grounds!

For too long, the beautiful medium of watercolour has been confined to a paper-behind-glass niche. Now, with these exciting Watercolour Grounds, anything you've dreamed of painting on with watercolour can become a reality.

Absorbent or semi-absorbent surfaces (such as paper, canvas, other fabrics, Wood, plaster, shells and hardboard) require no special prep before brushing on Daniel Smith watercolour grounds

• Apply straight from the container using a soft-haired synthetic brush for a smooth finish or a hog bristle brush for a more textured finish. One coat will cover most surfaces.
• Curing: to allow watercolour ground to attain the correct degree of absorption, let watercolour ground dry and cure for at least 24 hours
• Because it creates a surface more absorbent than paper, Daniel Smith works best in conjunction with lower-water paints, such as watercolours and thinned acrylics.
• Finishing: as with all watercolours, your work on Daniel Smith watercolour ground will need to be fixed if it will not be Framed behind glass
• Golden Archival Aerosol MSA Varnish with UVLS is an excellent spray varnish that will protect your work on any surface. Use it at room temperature in a well-ventilated area.