Watercoloring a Floral Meadow

 This week Brenda is sharing this video called easy loose floral watercolor seen here on YouTube by Cecy Catalan Painting a Meadow. There is no closed captioning on that video but, it is short and I think most people if you have been trying the videos at SCS this last few years will understand what you are seeing and you know if you have questions, ask them someone will know the answer. 

 I watched the video and decided to just start a painting real quick on some Arches cold press paper and as soon as I shot this as layer one I knew there was just not enough paint on it for the background. So, I immediately painted another layer over this while it was wet.

 So my second ( blurry background layer) is how I thought of it. 

What I added next, some foreground grass and splatter dot flowers. Some ground shadows of deeper green with a little brown tucked in. 

what the layer above dried to. So I added a little more paint, some more flowers. I did use regular watercolor paint for the yellow centers in the daisy type flowers added below and the white blooms are white gouache paint straight from the tube. 

I also added some grass sprig (leaves?) what ever you call the top of grass that makes it look like its seedy. (grass seeds?) ha, its been a crazy long day we are getting new emails at work and home so, my brain is tired. I had thought I was going to add more paint to this but, the last two days were nope. Its been really hot here as well so, this is where I stopped. 

I diecut the painted layer with an Hero Arts rectangle die and then glued it crooked to a printed paper (green) from a Carta Bella (home again pad) and then used an xacto knife to straighten that out a little so, I roughed up the edges. The sentiment here is from the Clearly Besotted Sweetest Sentiments set and I used some Versafine ink for that and even as hot as it is it, did not dry so, I hit that with a heat gun after blotting it a few times and getting ink transfers. I am telling you I am impressed I remembered to do this, I cannot tell you how many things I have painted on this paper, added a sentiment thought it was dry, die cut it and smeared that ink all over the cutting plates.. The base here is some PTI vintage cream and its finished out at A6 in real life. 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.