Today I have been practicing my watercoloring. From everything that I have seen or watched online, I have learned that to be a better watercolorer I have to practice. It is very difficult to figure out the amount of water that is needed to get the effect that I would like to achieve. I have been having so much fun with this medium. For the card above I used watercolor paper and stamped my flower images with Staz on ink because it will not run when water is applied. I randomly stamped the flowers from the tea together stamp set. I layered the colors that I used, letting them dry in between each of the layers. This is very important so that you get a layer, if you apply more color when the image is wet the colors will bleed into each other.
I went in with a wash of balmy blue for the background. I wanted to keep the background pretty neutral so that the flowers would stand out. I love to color my flowers bright and bold as I am sure you can tell from this painting. Since the background is so busy and I decided to go with a simple greeting for the card. I hope you try watercoloring with the aquabrush and some of the dye inks. It really is fun and relaxing. Let me know if you have any other questions. Have a beautiful day!
