sugar instead of salt?

I took a quick water colour workshop back in the summer of 2019 at Swinton's Art Supply. I can't say I learned anything new; my own fault for not asking the level of course. It was 4 hours one Saturday afternoon. It was still fun to play with water colours.

Anyhoo, during this course she mentioned doing a wet on wet technique then applying salt to give it a spattered look in the wash. With what I wanted to do yesterday, I wanted that look for the background. Since I only have "good" Redmond's Real Salt, I decided to use sugar. Will this work?? In the end, it did work BUT the piece ends up being a bit sticky. It is dry now so it really doesn't matter. I feel that the sugar also clumps together more than salt does. I will try salt and report back on that hypothesis.

With everything going on in the world today, I have been reading and following many spiritual type sites, videos, and people. I have known about the Merkaba(h) for quite some time and it has come up again recently. Mer-ka-bah: Mer means light; ka means spirit; and ba(h) means body so Merkabah means spirit light body. It combines two tetrahedrons (sun and earth) and each spins in opposing directions from one another.

This is the basics of a Merkaba(h)

and my sugar background 😊

All around, I am happy with the background. It is what I wanted. I promise to try the technique with salt and sugar side by side and post my findings. 

I made this card for a friend; she is where the inspirations came from to draw a Merkaba(h) in the first place. She spoke about filling our light body during one of her videos. I immediately thought of a single water colour that I bought from Mona Lisa Artists' Materials (they do not seem to have a website).
The paint I bought is by The Stoneground Paint Co. and the colour I bought is Pearl. I also used this colour when I made the birthday card for my friend at the end of March. I mixed it with other water colours previously and this time I used it on its own. I was not sure how well it would show against white. All around, it can be seen well. 

I have been using these Winsor & Newton Water Colour Postcards that my sister bought me years ago. I used them for the birthday card mentioned above as well as back in December when I made a few snowmen cards for friends I was visiting over the holidays.