This week Julie is sharing the Crafty Hacks site and pinterest boards collection where I found this white jack-o-lantern witch pin and smiled. and my second thought was, you could paint that. There was a how to tutorial for the watercoloring challenge earlier this week seen here and I remembered the colors and idea of how-to build a white ish pumpkin...
So I cut a piece of Artist loft watercolor to A6 and pulled out my Daniel Smith watercolors. I did sketch this pumpkin to start because, I knew I needed to save room for the hat and I wanted it to be much larger than the card I did earlier in the week.
I used a water soluble pencil for this stage.
I started building layers for the pumpkin it self and I knew the top would be under the hat brim so I stopped the ribs below where I thought that would be.
So I decided to add the hat while that first few rounds of paint dried on the face. I had such a big space to fill, it dried before I could blend the colors.
So I kept adding more paints and trying to blend it a little and then sketch on a single tooth smilin' Jack face.
First layers of paint on the cut out face parts, I knew I wanted more deeper colors but, I figured the background was still light enough to mostly be able to paint over that.
I did end up adding a touch of green to the Jack face along with some shadows under the brim and under the body of the pumpkin. I dug for my cheesecloth but, it's hiding so out came this old May Arts gingham ribbon and hemp string to wrap around that carta bella print from their Americana pad. It was trimmed down slightly under 6" square and the painted panel was cut to as small as I dared and I did ink the edges of the watercolor paper with some Vintage Photo DOX ink. The sentiment here was stamped on a scrap of thyme cardstock and cut with an Crafters Companion Tags & Tickets die. I do not know who makes that sentiment, my first thought was Unity but, I don't know for sure anymore. The base here is some textured "Yam" Bazzill cardstock and as I look back at the pin I realize I left off all the decorations and the jingle bell from the hat and I am OK with that. I think this conveys the same silly vibe that pin has and I am pretty tickled with how it turned out and am sitting on my hands to not add more paint to it. 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.
