Watercoloring a Gingerbread House

 Hi, & Welcome, It's my turn to host the watercoloring challenge this week and so I had chosen this video of a gingerbread home a few months ago thinking to do quick little tags before baking season started. and with that in mind I was mostly curious about the color combo because, Blue is not something I reach for or think of with Gingers. This video is from Watercolor Relaxation & Coloring ideas and can be found here on YouTube. One thing about it, she does use Windsor & Newton paints and I have Daniel Smith so, I just winged it by doing the snow/frosting pale purple and the blues and browns and reds are different.

I started with the sketch on some Artist Loft (cheap) watercolor paper.

and yes, sketching is not my thing at this point I was ready to dig out a stamp ha ha. but, I kept going.

First layers of brown I did let this dry before I continued.

Second layer of paints. 

I did think it was interesting to watch her do her shadows. It was not anything I have not seen before but, I was impressed with the whole rubbing out the harsh lines she did do.

now once I started adding blue for the sky was when I started to get some pretty hard lines so, I kept adding more water and paint to this trying for that bold color.

Started adding candies to the frosted areas and blurring that thinking its supposed to be the candies would bleed into the frosting right? 

I was almost happy with the depth of color by this time but, I could see the lines while it was wet so, I did right after this add more.

And the more I Looked at it, the more I thought it would be very easy to keep adding paint all week to this. So, I stopped. I did not add the white gel pen or the acrylic paint to the door frame.

When the paint was dry I die cut that panel with the Mama Elephant deckled edge frame die, put foam tape under it and then cut this joy typewriter sentiment (Simon says stamp) from a scrap of red cardstock to add on. The base here is a pre made one A2 and I am guessing its a very old Tim Holtz one. ( mine are all in a drawer together mostly with no packaging. I am trying to use them up. So, that's about it from me. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.