Watercoloring a Spring Wildflower scene

 Good Morning, It's Wednesday and it's my turn to host the Watercoloring tutorial challenge at Splitcoaststampers this week and I came across this little one from Julia Lis Art on YouTube that I loved the simplicity of containing the view in the circle color block. My brain said this design would make very neat Clean and Simple projects. 

I had a few days from when I watched the video to when I started the painting and (it's tax season crunch time here) and although mine are all filed that is not the case with older family members. So, I needed this time to just decompress and paint. When I started this and then pulled out my phone to shoot this first shot I thought, add more color before it dries.

 

So I did and then I walked away and came back to this late in the afternoon yesterday to add the grass & wildflowers.

I realized as I was adding the grass that I did not add any splatters when I did the main circle background so I added some on top of the flowers. Then added some more on top of this after that. I used some white gouache for the "daisy" type blooms and when I added the yellow to the centers that overwrote the white spots for the most part and I just let it go. I knew as soon as I did it I should have let it dry longer but, I was out of time. I do tend to try to start these paintings on Saturdays so I can have drying time but, it just didn't work out that way this week.

I look at this and do not see much spring, but the artist did mention she was painting this last fall so, I see it that way but, still love the idea of it. I trimmed down the Arches cold press watercolor paper with an Spellbinders Perfect Touch Arches die and then found this sentiment stamped previously in the drawer of such things. I am guessing its an Stampin' Up! sentiment ( an old one maybe with critters in it) but, so far that is all my brain has remembered. It was cut with an deckled edge die ( probably SB as well) and both of these panels are up on foam tape over the Neenah Environmental base that was finished out at A2 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.