I was trying to put it all together and if we're talking the steeples rising up above a church in the night/day of the north brightly lit up to welcome people in... then the words fit perfectly. Looking up at a cascading ceiling from below one gets the feeling of falling,of being uplifted unto that roof...that's the glory of a large gothic arch. and all I ever did to get my white is use a dry brush to remove the watercolors before they dried or a small sponge blotter...I use masks all the time even draw my own in Autocad, never though of using one that way.