you're welcome!
I have a new batch of painting supplies in transit, and one of the paint sets has promising pigment granulation judging by what I see on youtube from other artists who paint with traditional media fulltime;
not sure if I'll be able to reproduce the result, but it will be something to consider through the summer, along with some other ideas.
I tried experimenting with salt, but it does not look too good when scanned at high resolution, and the effect just does not translate well with monochrome washes.
maybe i need different salt, idk, but so far it looks like throwing digital glitter speckles inside of artrage and going over those with a wet blender does a better job replicating the effect, much faster too.
likewise, having spare time has been an issue, but I hope I'll find some eventually.