Art Impressions Blog: Watercolor Roundup 9.19.2020

Hello, Ai Fans!

Welcome to another Watercolor Roundup!

This weekend our Watercolor Design Team has some creative, inspiring creations for you!

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Tricia O'Bin - Blog - Instagram - YouTube - Pinterest - Facebook

Hello Art Impressions Watercolor fans and welcome to another Watercolor Weekend round-up with the Art Impressions watercolor team!

I am so excited to share my fall watercolor project, Autumn Flowers, with you this weekend. I hope you find some inspiration to create your own fall projects.

The Painting

I started out my stamping my large cottage inked with blue and brown to the right side of my watercolor paper. I pulled the color out of the lines, keeping the shadowed areas really dark and blending out towards the center of the cottage. Next I added some brown from my palette to the roof, door and the chimney. I added some dark blue and light blue to the windows, keeping the top left really dark.

I used a mask to cover up the flower boxes to keep them protected while I added the flower bunches, inked with green and maroon. I removed the masks and pulled the color out of the lines. Next, I took one of the large branches inked with brown and stamped it to the left of the cottage. Using the daisy bunch I inked up orange, I stamped it around the tree top. I added water and softened the lines.

From the original foliage set, I added grasses to the left and right of the cottage and under the tree. I pulled the color up and out of the lines. Next, I masked the right side of the cottage and added some yellow to the daisy bunch and stamped it several times. I added water to soften the lines.

Using my positioner, I inked the stepping stones with brown and stamped it in front of the cottage, I pulled the color out of the lines and added some additional brown from my palette. I inked the wrought iron bench with brown and stamped it to the left using my positioner. I used my positioner to stamp the weathervane inked in brown to the top of the roof. Lastly, I added some blue to the sky. Don’t forget to sign and date your work.

The Card

I cut a mat from Gina K Designs Tangerine Twist card stock (4 x 5.25) and adhered it to a Neenah Solar white card base (5.5x8.5) with Gina K Designs connect glue. I cut my painting out using a rectangle stitched die and adhered it to the mat.

That is my card for today. I hope you will take some time to create something this weekend along with us. Tag us on Instagram using #AIWatercolor so we can see your work! Keep scrolling to see the awesome projects my team members have created. See you next time!

Dot Freel - Instagram - Blog - Pinterest- YouTube

Hi,

This one is for all of us combination card makers/quilters. Have you seen those calendars or cards with a quilt in front like it's hanging on the line? I just love those, don't you? It finally occurred to me to make one.

I used the house but it would be cute with one of the shops, too. I have had this quilt die set for many years and at the time that I bought it, I didn't know to keep the packaging. I've looked on the sites where I usually order and I can't find it. I have no idea who makes it. If anyone knows, please let me know! There are other quilt dies out there that would work, too.

I made a tutorial on how to make this card on YouTube so check it out here: https://youtu.be/-6w4zrRIO6E

Karen Day - Blog - Facebook - Pinterest

Hello Ai fans!

I've got a fall scene to share this week, and I created my own watercolor frame to go with it:

Using my Tombow Dual Brush Marker #969 Chocolate, I coloured the basket from 4605 - Spring Basket, and stamped it onto my Canson XL Watercolor paper. I masked it off, and used the 2 pumpkins from 5059 - WC Harvest Set, stamping them in very light versions of #969, masking them as I went so that they appear behind each other. I scribbled #312 Holly Green, #228 Gray Green and #946 Gold Ochre onto my palette, and painted them in on the various pumpkins - layering the colours to get deeper shades, especially in the crevices.

I used my damp #4 paintbrush to pull the colour out of the lines of the basket, adding more colour to the shadowed areas, and making sure that the basket weave stood out. I used my Twintone marker in #41 Chocolate to draw in the basket handle (it's not part of the stamp, you have to draw it in yourself!).

With the double wheat image from 5008 - WC Flower Set 3, I stamped it repeatedly in #991 Light Ochre behind the pumpkins, and added a few in #076 Green Ochre as well. Using the two leafy stems from the Spring Basket set, I coloured them both in #228 Gray Green, and tucked them in and around the pumpkins, along with some small twigs from 4964 - WC Branches Set in #969. The large grass from 4051 - WC Foliage Set 1 was stamped in #076 around the base of the basket, and touched with a damp brush. A faint wash of #565 Deep Blue was painted in as the sky, and shadows.

To create my frame, I painted my warm Tombow shades (#969, 947, 946 & 991) onto a piece of watercolour paper, then I taped two of the 5063 - Rectangle A2 Double Stitched dies together with some washi tape, and ran it through my die cut machine. I adhered the frame over my image with some 3D foam adhesive tape to raise it up a little, then added some brown paint spatters to my card.