Online Card Class - Simply Watercolor - Card 8

Another "critters" card:

Another copy of Kristina's card - another very difficult card to create - again, this is why I stamp!

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Online Card Class - Simply Watercolor - Card 7

This card is homework from the "critters" day of class:

It is a copy of Kristina's card and my 4th try at it!! This is why I use stamps!

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Online Card Class - Simply Watercolor - Card 6

Here is card #6:

I used my Koi Field Watercolors on Arches water color paper and a #4 brush. I love using the wet on wet technique to let the colors blend together.

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Online Card Class - Simply Watercolor - Cards 4 and 5

I am back with another class assignment. I made two versions of a card. The first one was done on Arches watercolor paper using my Kuretake Gamsai Tambi watercolors:

I found it very difficult to do the lettering and was not thrilled with my results. I decided to create another one on smoother watercolor paper. I also decided to use Twinkling H2O's for the background paint so there is a shimmer and shine for more interest:

I still am not happy with the sentiment but it was easier to paint on the smoother paper.

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Online Card Class - Simply Watercolor - Card 3

My third card for class:

This time I used my Kuretake Gamsai Tambi watercolor paints. They are so creamy and nice to work with.

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Online Card Class - Simply Watercolor - Card 2

My second card for class:

Again, I used my Koi watercolors and #4 round brush.

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Online Card Class - Simply Watercolor - Card 1

I am participating in the Simply Watercolor class where we don't use any stamping - all hand done.

This is my first card:

I used my Koi Field Watercolor paints and a #4 round brush.

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Little Flowers Notecard

This is another card that I created for homework for the Online Card Class - Intermediate Watercoloring.  These flowers were created using a round paint brush and watercolor paints. I like how the petals came out but not the stems. I used the tip of the brush to make the black dots to break up the design and then mounted the panel on some striped patterned paper.

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Visual Art Journal Days 2 and 3

On day two we did the emboss resist technique with a water colored background.   Here I used Twinkling H2O's again.  The embossed feathers are from Hero Arts.

Below are pages from day 3:

This is a freehand leaf painted with distress markers and a paint brush.  I was illustrating that journaling can be done in different ways - not just writing straight across the page.  Here I journaled along the edge of the leaf.

 L'dor v'dor - Hebrew for "from generation to generation".
I used Color Burst water color pigment powder and placed some powders in a palette and mixed in a little water - a little powder goes a long way!  I painted the colors onto this Penny Black iris with a brush, spritzed with more water and stamped.  I then spritzed again and stamped and did that a few times - generation stamping.




Generation 1

Generation 2 and 3

 Generation 4

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Hello

This is my hand drawn, hand painted poppy card.  I really enjoyed creating this card though it doesn't look as good as the poppy card I did with the stamps.  But I intend to practice with the poppies and butterflies since I really love both.  The sentiment is from Altanew.

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Happy Birthday

Another hand-painted watercolored card.  This was done using the technique that Jean demonstrated using water color pencils and ink.  I had saved a stencil that I made from a butterfly die and lightly drew the outline with a colored pencil.  The inside painting is free hand.  Sentiment is from Winnie & Walter.

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You Brighten My Day

For OCC - Watercoloring class days 9 and 10 have us free hand watercoloring!  I drew these daisies myself with a light pencil.  I painted the daisies with my Koi watercolors.  I even used the white paint but you couldn't really see the individual petals so I redrew the lines with pencil when the paint was dry.  I did a watercolor wash with very light blue paint for the background.  The sentiment is from Avocado Arts and I cut the panel and matting with Lifestyle Crafts dies.

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