Watercoloring a Granulated Landscape

 Hi & Welcome back, It's my turn to host the watercoloring tutorial this week and I have chosen this one seen here on YouTube by Anastasia Mily. (the whole name of this video is A Quick and Loose Watercolour Landscape using 2 colours only. Which happen to be Sodalite Genuine And Transparent Red Oxide by Daniel Smith. The colors is what drew me in on this one. I love how the granulated colors look here and the space was big enough to show that off. A lot of time when you are painting things to be scaled down to a card size you don't see that much of the color change when its a busy painting and or a small one. 

So I started with a piece of Arches cold press wc paper cut to just under A7 in real life and used some Gorilla tape for the horizon line. 

I left this to dry.

Removed that first row of tape, moved the line down a smidge and started on the foreground. (and it was not quite dark enough even being wet. So, I kept adding more paint and splatters to it.

I was not all that sure where I was going to stop so, I did add more water and paints to this. changed the shape of the bottom a little. 

This is what I stopped at to let it dry.

When dry that second piece of tape came off to look like so. I did manage to get a few red splatters in the sky but, they are pretty faint and small so, I left them. 

Added in the trees and birds. sometime after I shot this snapshot I did mix the soladite & tran red oxide and did get a deeper brown shade there but, most the mixing I did do on the paper like it was shown in the video. 

What it looked like when I stopped tossing paint on it. I did let this sit being pressed under the bars of my Big Shot while I was at work today and then pulled it out a few hours before this went live to make it a simple card. I had shot this thinking I was going to crop it smaller and ended up leaving it just like so. 

I added it to an brown A7 cardstock base and then stamped the Gina K. Sentiment with some Versafine to the front. ( the insides blank still) but, I am leaning towards birthday card here. 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.