Watercoloring a Loose Autumn Forest

 This week Kia is sharing this video tutorial seen here on YouTube by Harriet DeWinter on doing a loose Autumn Watercolor scene. That was such a pretty preview photo of the video I was really excited to try this one. 

I did start with a piece of Cold Press Arches wc paper cut to A7 and taped down. (this is the background first layers of paint. I probably should have made it taller but, this is what I did. 

 

First layers of foliage were added to the tops of the trees here along with some quick pencil lines for tree trunks with an water soluble pencil and some ground color. I probably should have done more splatters here but, I didn't think of it. 

 

Where I stopped painting, and honestly taping this paper down to the board did not do anything to stop the warp factor for me, It hardly ever does. So my thought at this point was why did you bother with that step? Who knows? but, it does make me wonder what kind of hold the tape most of these people are using. This is delicate surface gorilla tape here. and it does not hold it flat, on the other hand it does not rip up the paper after the fact either. 

 I did press this for a while in my big shot but, its still a little tweaked. I just mounted it really simply to some SU more mustard cardstock and had trimmed it down to A6 for a finished size. I am thinking I will be trying this one again some time. If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by.