Watercoloring Loose Anemone's

 This week Linda is sharing this video seen here on YouTube that is a loose pitcher of Anemone flowers. When I turned on the Closed captioning it wrote the words in I think it may have been Spanish so, I turned it off and this was done from memory from just watching it. I am sure I did not use the same colors and I probably skipped around the steps out of order but, I think I got the gist of it. 

All my splatters were tiny, just really tiny so, I kept going up in brush size. I did some splatter-y loose blobs of what I was hoping would become the backgrounds of the flowers on the edges leaving some space for white-ish blooms in the center. 

 So I added in some leaf suggestions along with a wonky tilted pitcher top ha and another layer of paint to the flowers.

another layer of paint pretty much every where. 

 

I started adding darker rings to the centers of the blooms and more splatters and more leafy background suggested things so it wasn't so clean on the edges. 

 More splatters and paints. 

 and even darker paints to the centers of the blooms. the shapes of the leaves overlapping the rim of the pitcher bug me every time so, they get more paint every round as well. 

 I kept adding shadows to the leaves but, they just look harsh and too there not loose to me so, I just kept adding more. ha and along the edges of the pitcher as well. the shadows are deeper. 

I tried a white gel pen, actually I tried 3 different ones. They didn't do much to my eye so I used some white gouache straight out of the tube by this point. And I am thinking about trying to press this flatter in the bigshot while I am at work today while I still ponder some words for finishing it off. I really do not have any floral cards on my needed list at the moment so, its a mental road block.  So When I came home I pulled it out of the bigshot and it was slightly flatter but, not a completely flat painting. and I don't have an idea about what to do with it so, this is where I stopped.

 That's about it from me, I hope you are doing well And If you'd like to play along with us you can find this challenge here at SCS. Thanks for stopping by. 

 

More Snow

 We had a long weekend last weekend and I did start painting a whole bunch of snowmen ( most I think will morph into tags) but, I did finish one into another card today after work.

 Seriously, I am thinking maybe happy winter? ( most of my Christmas paper is red or poinsettias but a lot of red and or red & green haha) so, It's kind of funny how much I like to color snowmen... 

 Before I did all the stamped ones, I tried doing the dies from the PTI giftcard snowman dies, and I just do not see how this becomes a gift card holder. ( that sentiment is from the set that matches the dies) and the dies just make two sizes of snowmen.. So, I inked some of the diecuts and added some chunky snowflake glitter mix to the edges of them. I am still debating about how these become gift card holders so, they are works in progress.

 I decided for the heck of it to try "handmade" watercolors, I have not actually done this before but, these colors caught my eye in this shop in ETSY. And so, they arrived yesterday and I decided to give them a whirl. 

 What they look like dry. I think the Cerulean Grey is my favorite of this batch and I thought ( of course) it will work so well for snowmen.

 And so it did, that color is on their bodies. The hats are some DS moonglow. I did add some Stickles glitter glue to the base line of snow and some white gouache to the falling snow then add-libbed some extra falling snow on the bodies. This is an old Buttermilk Basin stamp by Inky Antics which has a # on the block as P4-9081-3L. Stamped with Versafine morning mist on Arches cold press paper.

 I cut that panel with a Tim Holtz deckle die and then inked the edges with some Iced Spruce Distress Oxide ink and wrapped on some SU pool party sheer ribbon that has a pretty shine to it. Found this Anna White tree printed paper in the pack from her Sweet Miss Daisy Etsy store called let it snowman. ( its not flimsy paper more like printed thin cardstock or coversheet rather than paper) the base here is some PTI oceantides finished out at A6 and that's about it from me, I will probably be gluing snowman tags together for sometime to come hahaha. hope you are doing well & thanks for stopping by.