Watercolor Weekend Roundup and new Watercolor Sets for Fall 2021

Hello Ai watercolor fans!

It's time for another Watercolor Weekend Roundup and this week we have new releases!
Dot, Karen and Tricia have been busy behind the scenes creating lots of wonderful new cards to help inspire your creativity.

You can find all of the latest releases here.

Now for our fabulous Design Team's creations!

Hello,

How can it be November already and how exciting is it that there are brand new Art Impressions stamps coming out? I used the new 5470 Foundations Rocker for this card.

There are three amazing new Foundations sets available. I love them and highly recommend them all! They build the entire scene and you just add the fun stuff like foliage, flowers, animals, or people. I only added flowers and foliage for this fun Fall looking card. Stamp the foundation using Memento London Fog ink like I did, or use Tombow markers as Bonnie and Kendra do. I like to not lose the lines on the Foundations which can happen when you add water. Color the rocking chair, one pot and one birdhouse roof in with N45. Picking colors is also the fun part. Color the birds with 969 and 925. I used the fine point of the Tombow TwinTone in brown for the bird's eyes, beaks and feet. Color the birdhouses in 969 and 192. Darken the holes and poles with the fine tip of the blue Tombow TwinTone. Draw a line connecting the birdhouses to the pole. The orange flowers are from the Flower Set 4052 inked in 925. The purple flowers are the dots from that same set inked in 565. The olive flowers are from that same set using 076 and the flat olive ones are from the 4701 Clay Pot set inked in 076. The foliage is inked in 177 and it's from the 5126 Foliage Set 4. The branches are from the 4701 Clay Pot inked in 192. Color the pots in 924, 969 and 192. The sky is 565 and the shadows are also 565. I can't wait to see what all of the talented people on the Facebook group "The Art Impressions Way" do with these new sets! Look for it and join. You will be amazed by all of the talent in that group!

 Hello Ai Watercolor fans!

I'm excited to share a slimline card using the new 5469 - WC Foundations Watering Cans today!

With a large image like this one, I like to use my Misti, to ensure that I get a complete impression of my image.  I die cut my Canson XL Watercolour paper, lined up the image in my Misti (leaving enough room for the sentiment at the bottom), then coloured the entire stamp in Tombow Dual Brush Marker #969 Chocolate, and #565 Deep Blue, and stamped it.  After pulling out the colour from the stamped images, I picked my colour palette of #757 Port Red, #528 Navy, and #565 to paint in the watering cans, adding layers of colour where they would be darkest at the edges, and leaving highlights in their middles.  I used the same three colours along with #761 Carnation to stamp my flowers, then used #177 Dark Jade and #126 Light Olive to add in some foliage.  The stamp sets are numerous - so you can see them listed below.  I added a few small branches in #969, and painted in the post in a combo of #992 Sand and #969.  I added some grass in #177, and painted in a watery shade of #528 to suggest a sky.

The sentiment from the Exclusive Hydrangea Set was gold embossed on vellum, and adhered across the bottom, after I had matted the image in coordinating cardstock.

 

Hello AI watercolor fans! We are in the middle of a fabulous new release. Bonnie has gone above and beyond with this one. I am using the new Teapots and Flowers sets to create this Rainbow Teapots card.

 STEP 1: STAMP THE TEAPOTS Ink up the teapots with 969, stamp off and then stamp into the middle of a slimline card. Pull the color out of the lines. Work in your shadows along the sides of each pot. STEP 2: ADD COLOR Add each color to your palette, add color to the pots (make sure to keep outsides dark and paint the contour of the pots (and lids). STEP 3: GROUND THE POTS Pull color from beneath each pot in the same direction, I chose to have the light source in the top right so the shadow comes out on the left of each pot. STEP 4: DECORATE YOUR POTS This is a great way to add interest to your pots. This set has some great decorative stamps. I used them all here. I inked each one in the same color of the pot so it would be subtle. Some I just drew in some decorations. No need to add water! Play with textures and designs, so MUCH fun! STEP 5: THE FLOWERS & FOLIAGE Using post it tape, mask the top of the pot and stamp the flowers. Ink each stem with green and each flower with whatever color you like and stamp it several times into the pot. Vary the height and color of each flower to create interest. Once all the flowers and foliage are stamped in, pull the color out of the lines. (TIP: be sure to keep your white spaces and highlights.) STEP 6: THE SKY I used some blue and a lot of water to build up the sky. Don’t let this intimidate you, push your brush around to create clouds. You can add more blue when it is wet to create a cool effect. (I tend to drop in darker color at the bottoms of my clouds.) Experiment by using different sky colors (sunset, sunrise or whatever you like). STEP 7: SIGN AND DATE – ALWAYS SIGN YOUR WORK! STEP 8: HAVE FUN! This project was so fun and easy. It is a little more time consuming (by like 10 minutes LOL) and I just loved the final project. What will you come up with? Make sure you post your work and tag us on Instagram so we can drool with you! Thanks again to Art Impressions for an incredible release. Instagram tags (#AIStamps, #AIWatercolor and #WatercolorTheArtImpressionsWay.) Have a crafty weekend, see you next time!

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