Hey watercolor fans, welcome back to another watercolor weekend! We are so excited that you decided to join us for some awesome watercolor inspiration.
I created this Peace on Earth lamp post card using just two stamps. I love that I can get so many great cards from just a couple of stamps. Let me tell you how I created this card.
Painting Details
First I inked up the small pine branch from the Fir Trees Set. I find myself grabbing for this stamp a lot. It works great on all types of pine trees, branches and other wonderful tree shapes. I inked it up with green (249) and stamped it several times on the right side middle of the card. I then re-inked my stamp and stamped it several times in the upper right corner. I added water and softened the lines.
Next I added 969 to the Lamp Post from the Columns set and stamped it on the left side of the card. I pulled the color out of the lines. I added some orange and yellow to my palette. I added some yellow to the glass part of the Lamp Post. I then added orange to the bottom making sure to blend it into the yellow.
I added some brown to my palette and added some additional shadows to the left side of the Lamp Post so it would look like metal. I made sure not to ink up the bottom of the stamp so it would appear to come out of the foliage. I inked my fir branch up again and stamped it around the bottom of the Lamp Post. I added water to the fir branches.
I wanted it to look like there was a halo of light around the Lamp so I added some yellow around it, making sure not to touch the brown. To create the sky, I added blue to my palette and using a lot of water I applied it to the background. You will notice there a lot of blooms. This is due to the different drying times of the water and color I laid down. This is exactly the effect I was looking to create. I love blooms, especially in my landscapes, skies and water scenes. They are such a happy accident. Once I learned to embrace the bloom I was a lot happier with my paintings. I made sure to blend it into the yellow halo. I wanted it to look like it is snowing so I added some white gel pen to add snow.
For a Christmas touch, I used the fine point of my red marker, I added some dots around the pine tree and drew in a bow. Lastly, I signed and dated my work.
This was such a fun and easy project, I would love to see what you create. Make sure to tag us on Instagram and use #AIWatercolor so we can see your work! I hope you enjoy this watercolor weekend, it’s going to be cold here in New England so there’s nothing more I would like to do…but I digress. Have a crafty day!!
Card Details
I cut the painting out with my rectangle stitched die and added it to a mat made of Gina K Designs Christmas Pine card stock cut with the next size up rectangle stitched die. I added it to a white card base.
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I am using a few of the newly released Art Impressions Watercolour and Bible Journaling sets today to create my little Santa's rocking chair scene.
I am painting on Bristol Smooth cardstock, as I have some fine details, and felt this would work best with my #1 paintbrush. I started by diecutting the rocking chair from my masking paper, and then without sticking it down, I used it as a guide for where to draw the hat. I sketched the hat in lightly with a pencil, then masked it. I coloured up the 5360 - WC Rocking Chair Set stamp with my Tombow Dual Brush Marker #N65 Cool Grey 5 and stamped it onto my paper, then covered it with the die cut mask. I inked up one of the pots from 4869 - WC Small Container Set in #N65, and stamped it over the mask, so that it appears slightly behind the chair. To add the greenery, I picked the small pine-like green from 4867 - WC Foliage Set 2 New, and stamped it repeatedly with #249 Hunter Green to create my little tree (sometimes only colouring small portions of it). Drawing directly onto the paper, I used my #969 Chocolate marker to add in the suggestion of the tree trunk. The star is in one of the newly released Bible Journaling sets: 5390 - Mini Accents 2 - it was the perfect size! I coloured it in #993 Chrome Orange.
To the chair I added #476 Cyan, painting it quite loosely, leaving lots of white areas to suggest weathered wood. The Santa hat and pot were painted with a mixture of colours, starting with #837 Wine Red, with a few layers of a blue/red mixture to create shadows and texture. I sketched in the floorboards with my #992 Sand marker, and painted a few streaks with it, and #969 to look like woodgrain. I also drew in the #992 on the edges of the star to create some shadows. After touching the greenery with a damp brush, I added in some #565 Deep Blue to create some shadows on the tree, the chair and shadows on the floor. A watery version of #177 Dark Jade was painted in as the wall colour.
My scene was cut out with the 5132 - Tag Stitched Dies, and I cut out coordinating rings using the tiny die that comes in the set. I added the sentiment from 4514 - Snowman Shaker (retired!) and mounted it with 3D foam adhesive over a patterned tag. I added a few enamel dots and tied on some organdy ribbon with Baker's Twine. I love that none of my stamps were holiday themed, but together they made up a sweet Christmas scene!
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