Watercoloring a Pansy

 It's my turn to host the watercoloring tutorial challenge at Splitcoaststampers this week and I happened across this Pansy by Katherine Skorka seen here on YouTube and I liked the detailing to the petals and thought that looks cool.

 I know the one in the video is huge so, with that in mind I did cut this Arches cold press to about 4 inches square ( something like 4 or 5 times larger than a real pansy for sure) I used an water soluble pencil for this sketch. 

And started adding layers of watercolor paint to it. 

the one thing about this is I did not save enough white space between the end of the purple color and the edges. and I decided to just keep going and see what happened anyways.

 another layer of paint with a little bit of detailing redone over the first layers. I am not liking the center much here the color and shape is kind of odd to me. 

after all this time I figured out what's wrong with this flower. (seems to me she says its a 4 petal bloom and really that large dark one in the back should be two petals overlapping each other but, I didn't paint it to have a lap in the center so, I just added more paint and let it dry.

 yet again another layer, I am not real impressed with this so far but, it does look better with each new layer of paint ( I am guessing now, it doesn't really look that much like a real pansy to me but, its not a total fantasy bloom either so there is that) 

I decided to add in a more pink-ish purple to the side petals after this layer and then cut it out with scissors to put it on the card below. 

The card base here is some Stampin' Up always amethyst cut to A6 in real life, the plaid border here is from the Memory Box Madras Blue & Violet plaid pad and the glimmer you see is gold foil on that plaid. The sentiment here is an old one from Hero Arts done in some Versafine ink. That's about it from me, I hope you are doing well. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here. Thanks for stopping by.