Watercoloring April SweetPeas

 This week Suz is sharing this video of April's birth month flower Sweet Peas by Emma Jane Lefebvre seen here on YouTube. 

So, I watched the video and then just started painting mine on some Arches cold press watercolor paper with Daniel Smith paints. I did walk away and let the layers dry but, I think I may have done them slightly out of the order she did the video but, I think I ended up with the gist of it in the end.

 First layers of petals with an water soluble pencil stem line.

 I was by this point pretty impressed with this one as it was going along. It usually takes me lots of layers to think something is going OK. 

I did add some shadows to the climbing vine part of the stem and lines to the leaves after this as well.

 

I thought for sure I had a "sweetpea" stamp but, so far I have not found it as of yet. and I am thinking it was in one of those old Stampin' Up sets with lots of sentiments in it. And in the mean time I used a Penny Black elegant frame die to cut the watercolor paper and the mat under it. That green is some really old Close to my Heart that had the white core and was pretty thin? so, I don't remember its color name anymore but, I ran the top cover of the card through the big shot inside an Penny Black embossing folder. This one is 5 1/2" square 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 to play along. Thanks for stopping by.