Watercoloring a Loose Gnome

 This week Kia is sharing this very loose expressive gnome tutorial seen here on YouTube from  Joanne Boon Thomas Artist channel and I did watch the video and attempt to do one from memory, the first layer of paint was not too bad.

So, after it dried I attempted to add more paint to it including shadows haha.

and that was pretty much a fail. But, I knew if I could just remember what she did I could probably get it close enough. So, after this. I watched it again. 

This is first layer of paints, I did not try to add any shadows to this and I did take a corner tip of a paper towel to the area under his nose. 

So, this versions second layer I did remember to add some splatters and some of them are pretty hard as they did land on the dried paints. I also left the hat and shoes alone and only added in the blues and purples here for the shadows and highlight the light edges kind of a thing. when this dried I did cut it with an waffle flower rectangle die from the A7 set and used some mostly blue and reds Maja Prints to pull this together for a Christmas card.

The sentiment here is from Unity Stamps and its a sold as a single stamp one. I did use some Versafine to stamp that and then ended up rubbing the edges of the tiny star print paper with some DOX vintage photo. the lace is vintage and this one is 5 1/2" square in real life. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. thanks for stopping by.