Background sketches

I've been messing around with some water colour resists for the backgrounds of my Irish fairy animation. I want to keep the tones quite muted so there's a mysterious and slightly eerie quality to the scenes. I also didn't want them to be too realistic, just the hints of a landscape perhaps.

I really think the combination of the watery washes over a crayon resist and then topped off with darker lines for details such as the reeds or birds works really well. It's giving that gloomy, but slightly magical air I was after.