Watercolor Roundup 01-09-21

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

HAPPY NEW YEAR!  I am so excited to show you my first watercolor card of 2021.  I hope you had a safe and happy holiday.  Today I am featuring my Snow Globe Farmhouse. 

 

This painting is special to me as it is a friend of mine’s farmhouse. I was lacking inspiration and his home was all it took.  The Snow Globe stamp set is actually a frame stamp from Gina K Designs that is retired…sorry!

Painting Details

To create the snow globe, I placed the stamp in my MISTI and inked just the circle with my 569.  I wish I had cleaned the lines off of the edges before I stamped it; learn from my mistake.  There is also a base included in the set.  I lined it up in my MISTI and inked it with my 969 and stamped it below the globe.  I pulled the color out of the lines of the base and lightly around the snow globe. 

Next, I inked the farmhouse from the New WC Barn Set in 969 and 569 to get a grey color.  I stamped it off on watercolor paper so I could get a light image.  I wiped off the right side of the barn as my friend’s house didn’t have that side. I painted in the additional building behind the farmhouse. Using my palette, I added some green to the roof and pulled the color out of the lines.  I added some additional windows.

In the background, I painted in some mountains using 569.  I think this is my favorite color for snow.  I added some additional shadows underneath the house

For the trees I used the small trees from the New WC Large Tree set and the small pine and branches from the New WC Mini Foliage set.  I stamped them in 969, 569 and 249.  I added a small amount of water.  I also added a small shadow.  I painted in a birdhouse in the front yard.

Using the wet-on-wet technique, I added darker color along the edges of the globe and let it bleed down.  I made sure to leave a few white spaces to make it look like glare spots.  I kept adding water and color until I was happy.  Once it was dry, I added some Dr PH Martins white paint to resemble snow and to add a few more glare spots.  Lastly, I signed and dated (2021…wow).

 

Card Details

I cut the piece out using my Big Shot machine and a rectangle stitched die.  I glued it to a base made from Gina K Designs Edible Eggplant card stock with Connect Glue.  I added this to a card base.

I am so thankful that you chose to spend some time with us this weekend.  I hope you will keep posting all of your inspiring creations.  I look forward to seeing them every day.  Be safe and keep creating!

Dot Freel - Instagram - Blog - Pinterest- YouTube

Hello Friends,

Here's the card I made for the Art Impression's Watercolor Weekend. It could be my granddaughters on their trip to Hawaii in March. I stamped the shed from the 5121 - WC Garden Shed Set using both 86 African violet and brown 969 after I stamped it off on a scratch piece of paper first. I used the brown to color in the roof and door knob area. I used 17 steel blue to watercolor the shed and the windows. I stamped in the palm trees from the 5120 - WC Palm Tree Set with the brown and green 177. I used the smallest palm frond to stamp the ground cover and then used the flowers from the 4052 - WC Flowers Set 1 in the pink 725 for the flowers. I used 101 tropical with a touch of green mixed in to color in the water using straight strokes and brown to watercolor the sand. I stamped the little girls from the 5118 - WC Beach Girls Set using the 40 brownish grey then colored them with yellow 993, 77 pastel peach, steel blue, pink 725 and brown 969. I stamped one flower at a time with the pink for the swimsuit and then added a yellow dot in the centers. I used the fine tip of the 45 sepia to add hair strands to both girls. I used 86 African violet to add the shadows under the girls, trees and house. I used very little of the blue and a lot of water to color in the sky. I cut out the picture using the 5063 - Double Stitched Rectangle Dies and adhered it to my card base. The last thing I did was sign and date it.

You can find more inspiration by following me on my Instagram account here.

Karen Day - Blog - Facebook - Pinterest - Instagram

 Hello Ai Watercolor fans!

I was so happy to finally pull out the new 5367 - WC Birdcage Set to create a card to kick off the Watercolor Weekends for 2021!

This set consists of dies only - no stamps, so I began by die cutting one of the birdcages in Masking Paper, peeled off the backing, and adhered it to my Canson XL Watercolor Paper.  Then I selected my colour palette of Tombow Dual Brush Markers, and pulled out several sets for flowers & foliage.  Using the tiny circle of v-shaped blossoms from 4868 - WC Flower Set 2, I coloured it up in #856 Chinese Red, #933 Orange and #993 Chrome Orange - stamping several times to create clusters of colourful blooms.  To add foliage, I chose the two trailing ivy in 4867 - WC Foliage Set 2 New, and stamped them in #249 Hunter Green several times, to have ivy trailing out of the birdcage in both directions.  There were still some white areas in the middle of my cage, and I wanted some darker flowers, so I used the tiny dotted flower image from 5074 - Bible Flower Set coloured in #565 Deep Blue in two spots, and then took the small green from the same set and stamped it in the brighter #126 Light Olive - which added some contrasting foliage.

I touched all the stamped images with my damp paintbrush, then picked up #533 Peacock Blue from my palette, and carefully painted the background sky in around all of the birdcage edges (*this is important! If you don't paint right up to the edges of the mask, the 'negative' image of the birdcage will not remain when you remove the mask).  With my painting done, I removed the mask, and using my thin #1 paintbrush, I picked up #565 from my palette, and painted a fine line along the edges of the cage to indicate a shadow.  It also cleans up any ragged edges that remain from your painting.  I decided that a couple of birds would finish things off nicely, so I stamped two of them from 4872 - WC Birds Set in #N55 Cool Grey 7, and used N55, 565 and 533 to add colour.  I went in with my Twintone  42 Navy fine point marker to darken the eyes, beak and legs.

I cut the image out with the 5063 - A2 Rectangle Double Stitched Dies, leaving enough space below to add the sentiment from the Hydrangea Exclusive set available through Scrapbook.com.  After matting it with red, I adhered it to my patterned base using 3D Foam Adhesive.