Arctic Suminagashi Polar Bear

First effort at using suminagashi technique for adding interest to my painitings.  Definitely looking into more work with this technique.  Suminigashi is created by taking a waxy ink, oil paints, or even fingernail enamels, floating them on the top of water in a large, flat pan, then using a brush or chopstick to drag the pigments into patterns.  Then drop a dry or slightly moistened semi absorbent paper on top of the water, and peel the paper up slowly.  It's a transfer technique with paint floating in water.  In Italy, it's also called marbling; in Turkey, the name translates to "clouded paper."   Great overview article in wikipedia here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_marbling\